Quotes by Peter Brook

About Peter Brook:

Peter Stephen Paul Brook is an English theatre and film director, who has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director".
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An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Peter Brook

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

Peter Brook

Author Bio

  • NamePeter Brook
  • DescriptionEnglish theatre and film director and innovator
  • AliasesPeter Stephen Paul Brook
  • BornMarch 21, 1925
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheatre Director; Film Director
  • AwardsCommander Of The Legion Of Honour; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; International Ibsen Award; Praemium Imperiale