Quotes by Simon McBurney

About Simon McBurney:

Simon Montagu McBurney is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London.
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For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

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Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the pu...

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So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to ma...

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For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

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Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

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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.

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If you're an actor, go out and act.

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Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

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

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In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

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When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

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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.

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Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

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'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

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In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

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Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

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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.

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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

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Author Bio

  • NameSimon McBurney
  • DescriptionBritish actor, voice actor and director
  • AliasesSimon Montagu McBurney
  • BornAugust 25, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Konrad Wolf Prize