English - Actor | August 25, 1957 -
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
Simon McBurney
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Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
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We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.
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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 public.
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I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out - it's impossible not to eat something.
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I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.
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Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic.
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When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind.
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The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
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Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
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Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
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'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience.
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