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'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
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 was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. — 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
