I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you… — Simon McBurney Copy Share
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a… — Simon McBurney Copy Share
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time. — Simon McBurney Copy Share
