Matthew Bourne Quotes
- When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's…
- I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary…
- A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.
- Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is…
- I wish I was more adventurous.
- I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and…
- It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I…
- It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to…
- My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're…
- People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and…
- Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the…
- The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go…
- With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.