Peter Brook

The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all…

— Peter Brook

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of…

— Peter Brook

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that…

— Peter Brook

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out…

— Peter Brook

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of…

— Peter Brook

No act of government can save the world.

— Peter Brook

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

I have great respect for Brecht, but his path is not mine.

— Peter Brook

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open…

— Peter Brook

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing…

— Peter Brook

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

— Peter Brook

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

— Peter Brook

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks…

— Peter Brook

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the…

— Peter Brook

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

— Peter Brook

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in…

— Peter Brook

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

— Peter Brook

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on…

— Peter Brook

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

— Peter Brook

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

— Peter Brook

Being with the mainstream isn't very difficult - the tide is powerful, and it is easy to let it sweep us along…

— Peter Brook

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the…

— Peter Brook

“Truth in theatre is always on the move. As you read this book, it is already moving out of date. it is…

— Peter Brook

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

— Peter Brook

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage,

— Peter Brook