A biography for Sam Wanamakerhasn’t been written yet.
“It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.”
“The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.”
“Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.”
“The Ides of March? That doesn't worry me.”
“I am kind of a curiosity in England.”
“Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.”
“Since the theater is going to be reconstructed in the techniques of joinery craftsmanship as it was before, it will take longer to make. It will be a complex of buildings, not just the Globe, with a major permanent exhibition of the Elizabethan theater.”