George Ogilvie

When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a…

— George Ogilvie

I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school…

— George Ogilvie

I spent a month in India and where I learnt an important word for me, for everything that had come before and…

— George Ogilvie

One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

— George Ogilvie

My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young,…

— George Ogilvie

Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family…

— George Ogilvie

When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and…

— George Ogilvie

The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are…

— George Ogilvie

The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that…

— George Ogilvie

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I…

— George Ogilvie

World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in…

— George Ogilvie

Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?'…

— George Ogilvie

I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all…

— George Ogilvie

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie