"The only reality of the theater exists in……" — 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 stage and collectively imagines that this is real."
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38 Quotes by Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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