Simon McBurney Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.
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.
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.
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.
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.
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.
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.