English - Actor | August 25, 1957 -
I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.
Simon McBurney
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I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.
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For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules.
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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 have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.
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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 make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'
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'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.
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The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.
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For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.
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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 Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.
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