The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. — 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 suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — 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
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and… — 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… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — 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… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to… — 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 other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of… — 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
I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre. — 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… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when… — 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
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,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular… — 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
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to… — 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
