As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
