Direct Quote by Simon Callow Download Open image “I'd like to direct more operas.” — Simon Callow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Opera
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
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