"Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible……" — Simon McBurney
"Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse."
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38 Quotes by Simon McBurney
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As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an…
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Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and…
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Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
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The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there...
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Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I…
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Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if…
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We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind…
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Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to…
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I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort…
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The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative…
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I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps…
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I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big…
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