I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch. — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
Frankly, I find it very odd that, in a population that's more than 50 per cent of women, that Hollywood isn't producing more movies… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work. — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future. — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
