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Trevor Nunn Quotes

English - Director | January 14, 1940 -

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Imagination Believe Better Project

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Business Direction Literature Sense

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Feeling Actor Real Audience Between

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

Opportunity Wanted Every Perform

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

Change Challenge Ideas Process Want

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Way Fix Anything Disappointed Get

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Work People Enthusiasm Doubt Inside

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

Time Decision Back Go Now Going

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Feeling Never Opera Call Between

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

Ideas Believe Criticism You Group

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Integrity Sacrifice Feel You Your

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Creativity Arrogance Self-Confidence

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