"The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning……" — Peter Brook

"The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful."

— Peter Brook

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24 Quotes by Peter Brook

Peter Brook has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate…
A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated…
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear…
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst…
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of…
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an…
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in…
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles,…
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 Inspirational Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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