100 Quotes by John Tiffany

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.

My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off.

When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time.

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.