96 Quotes by 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.

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.

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 suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

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'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.