Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Littlewood

There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.

Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.

The men who go out the scientists who go out, they have so much fun on the way that when they get there well it's done. So they're looking for another thing. You see the objective may remain the same - the search - but you must get lost on the way, get stupid to my mind, this is what you do in theatre; a team of people go out to look for something, they find, maybe, something else.

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.