"Now what is earth, what are you rubbing…" — Peter Brook
"Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?"
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24 Quotes by Peter Brook
Peter Brook has 24 quotes on this site.
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A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
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There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate…
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A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated…
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In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear…
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst…
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The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of…
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Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an…
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The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in…
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles,…
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The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
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More Directing Quotes
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one of 531 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just…
— Kevin Bacon
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
— Alan Ball
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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I…
— Alan Ball
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
— Jason Bateman
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
— Cate Blanchett
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Directing takes a lot of time.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving…
— Jeff Bridges
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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position…
— Albert Brooks
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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
— Alton Brown
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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
— Steve Buscemi
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
— Steve Buscemi
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