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title: "2 Miller Quotes By Simon McBurney"
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> [When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/when-i-was-an-adolescent-in-england-at-school-we-had-to-read-death-of/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

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> [When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/when-i-met-miller-for-me-it-wasn-t-a-question-of-wanting-to-meet-him/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

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## More by Simon McBurney

> [The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/the-brain-constantly-assures-us-reassures-us-that-we-are-in-control/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/theatre-artists-are-essentially-sort-of-charlatans-and-thieves-i-mean/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/my-work-is-not-generally-in-the-commercial-sector-however-i-m-not/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/in-my-opinion-there-s-nothing-new-in-the-theatre-ever-theatre-makers/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/our-lives-are-a-sequence-of-things-when-we-re-alive-they-re/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/we-try-to-place-the-human-body-in-relation-to-the-image-all-the-time/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-constantly-want-to-know-what-is-a-table-or-what-is-a-cat/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/the-only-reality-of-the-theater-exists-in-the-mind-of-the-audience/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-suppose-as-an-actor-you-become-very-sensitive-to-rhythm-not-just/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-remember-the-fact-that-milk-was-delivered-every-day-by-a-milkman-in/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> ['Mnemonic' is a play about memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/mnemonic-is-a-play-about-memory/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-have-always-felt-more-at-home-in-a-culture-that-has-nothing-to-do/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/yes-it-was-chaos-working-through-chaos-you-never-quite-knew-what-you/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/one-of-the-things-he-liked-about-playwriting-as-to-any-other-kind-of/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

> [With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/with-the-theatre-for-god-s-sake-everything-makes-sense-you-create-a/)

[Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/)

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