I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I suppose that I'm excited by exciting theater. It takes a risk to show us the world in a new way. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken seriously enough… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I just think that you have to approach anything you do with a huge amount of integrity - I don't really care where it… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
