Trevor Nunn

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently…

— Trevor Nunn

Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then.

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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

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In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was…

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The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of…

— Trevor Nunn

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

— Trevor Nunn

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical…

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If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold…

— Trevor Nunn

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

— Trevor Nunn

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got…

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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have…

— Trevor Nunn

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would…

— Trevor Nunn

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…

— Trevor Nunn

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity,…

— Trevor Nunn

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and…

— Trevor Nunn

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next…

— Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

— Trevor Nunn

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

— Trevor Nunn

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in…

— Trevor Nunn

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't…

— Trevor Nunn

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult…

— Trevor Nunn

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

— Trevor Nunn

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were…

— Trevor Nunn