We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece. Simon McBurney More Quotes by Simon McBurney More Quotes From Simon McBurney Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. Simon McBurney something you play interesting I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't. Simon McBurney broken fire time school Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Simon McBurney say about storytelling wonderful Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways. Simon McBurney betrayal politics war people I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world. Simon McBurney door understand you world In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players. Simon McBurney looking look you space I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. Simon McBurney keen although find stage As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor. Simon McBurney child you play love
