Trevor Nunn Quotes

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• 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.
• 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.
• I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
• Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then.
• A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
• I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
• I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
• I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas…
• I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge…
• I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.
• If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need…
• If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
• The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
• In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more,…
• I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was…
• In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by.…
• In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits…
• One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
• Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was…
• The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university…

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