British - Director | December 27, 1966 -
I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.
Marianne Elliott
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I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'
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It's difficult to find an actress prepared to play a fading star.
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There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.
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I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.
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I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have happened.
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'War Horse' is just an extraordinary being.
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Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.
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I am quite an insecure person, and I think that, like any director, if I'm asked about my vision for a piece, I feel very vulnerable.
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Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.
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I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.
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It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.
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