Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
