"The work of a director can be summed……" — Peter Brook
"The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How."
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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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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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It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead…
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More Director Quotes
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set…
— Christian Bale
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I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an…
— Christian Bale
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So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his…
— Christian Bale
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I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I…
— Antonio Banderas
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The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older…
— Drew Barrymore
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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love…
— Drew Barrymore
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
— Kate Beckinsale
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If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie,…
— Monica Bellucci
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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