English - Director | 1971 -
It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
John Tiffany
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I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.
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I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!
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Broadway is full of crazy people.
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I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.
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The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.'
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I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.
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I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
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Trump is like an eater of worlds from an 'Avengers' movie, but there seem to be different rules for him. What are Twitter doing, for example? He's constantly breaking their rules, the sort of stuff other people get thrown off for.
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I looked into putting 'Doctor' on my license. But the insurance premium is higher, so I don't think I'll bother.
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It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking into a theater to see a living room? A sofa in a forest? Now you're talking.
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In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.
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