Simon McBurney Quotes
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
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.
Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
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 it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.
