Simon McBurney Quotes

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• As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean…
• Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because…
• Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
• The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there...
• 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 make…
• Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text,…
• 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 it's…
• Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way…
• I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the…
• The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else,…
• I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
• I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
• I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another…
• Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted…
• The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is…
• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of…
• People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop…
• Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in…
• I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an…
• 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, not a w-r-i-t-e;…

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