I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Whether you're a man or a woman, life can be very, very difficult and confusing and desperate, and it's life-enhancing to know… — 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… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different… — 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
