The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have… — 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… — 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
The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at… — 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
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
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
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a… — 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
For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but… — 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
I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story,… — 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
Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. — 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
