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'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.
— 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
As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.
— Simon McBurney
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
— Simon McBurney
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
— Simon McBurney
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
— Simon McBurney
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
— Simon McBurney
The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there ...
— Simon McBurney
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
— 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 in.
— Simon McBurney
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.
— Simon McBurney
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
— Simon McBurney
Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
— Simon McBurney
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
— Simon McBurney
For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.
— Simon McBurney
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
— 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.
— Simon McBurney
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
— Simon McBurney
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
— Simon McBurney
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
— Simon McBurney
Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.
— Simon McBurney
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.
— Simon McBurney
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
— Simon McBurney
I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.
— Simon McBurney
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.
— Simon McBurney
For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
— Simon McBurney
In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.
— Simon McBurney
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.
— Simon McBurney
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
— Simon McBurney
If you're an actor, go out and act.
— Simon McBurney
