Adored Quote by Simon McBurney

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

— Simon McBurney

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I…

— Simon McBurney

My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other…

— Simon McBurney

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

— Simon McBurney

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of…

— Simon McBurney

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but…

— Simon McBurney

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

— Simon McBurney

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the…

— Simon McBurney

I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from…

— Simon McBurney

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my…

— Simon McBurney

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

— Simon McBurney

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up…

— Simon McBurney