'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness. — 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
Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast… — 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
Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the… — 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
