All Simon McBurney Quotes
- 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… Act
- 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… Arrived
- Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time. All
- The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there... Appears
- 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… Absolutely
- 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,… Another Bit
- 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… All
- 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… Actor
- 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… Actor
- 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,… Actor
- 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. Actually See
- I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me. Able
- 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… Another Kind
- 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… Chaos
- 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… Absolutely
- 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… Aggressive
- 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… Begins
- 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… Brief
- 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… Actor
- 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;… Any
- The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage… Audience
- I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre. Life
- We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next,… Age
- Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but… Call
- Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Most