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Peter Brook
Peter Brook
British Producer
Born: Mar 21, 1925
Age Always Every Me Theatre You
Related authors: David Barron David Heyman David Puttnam Emma Thomas Eric Fellner Jeremy Thomas John Lloyd Tim Bevan
The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own. Peter Brook
Light Thought Own Energy Live Living Meeting Our Entering Would See Brought Something Could Never Clearly New None Revealing Audience Gradually Theater Them Theme Meaning Meaning Of Us Certain Moment Appears Event Actor
Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of an endlessly repeated climax of shared performance, again and again, something special can appear. Peter Brook
Love Needs Theatre Result Space Creation Aim Something Something Special Through Shared Performance Climax Repeated Endlessly Again Special Appear
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol. Peter Brook
War Great Laziness Way Easy Easy Way Seems Also Non-Violence Always Idol Ultimate False Effort Violent
A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a sentence or a speech with a propulsive rhythm: the thing you never say to a French actor is, 'Take your time.' Peter Brook
Time You Will Drive Every Say Shakespearean Take Never French Line End Rhythm While Sentence Your Actor Thing Syllable British Speech
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons. Peter Brook
You Yourself Year Way Circumstances Only Never Learned Different Which Ask Lessons Apply Last Last Year
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? Peter Brook
You Christ Starts Earth Finding Directing Icon Painter Now Jesus Jesus Christ Rubbing
I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I like the fact that they were fighting for the historical tradition of England. Peter Brook
Me Word Fighting Public Schools Fact Never Like Schools Tradition Go Were Nor Historical Did Public Teaching England Believed Raised
Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit in a perfectly balanced manner; between two and three, the child begins to bow regularly, which is a wonderful exercise for the body. Peter Brook
Age Wonderful Three Sit Those More Developed Perfectly Between Bow Balanced Exercise Learns West Than Begins Child Infinitely Children Which Japanese Manner Bodies Body Regularly Two
It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever. Peter Brook
Hope Me Courage People Lost Whatever We Cannot Has-Been One Thing Easy Give More Gives Disappear Course Leave Been Up Forever Going The One Thing Cannot Little Working Reason Nourished Even Thing
That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do. Peter Brook
Hope Me Memories Director People Only Idea Trace Real Lingering Left End Legacy In The End
When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film. Peter Brook
Ambition Make Film
Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept. Peter Brook
Wish Recognition Out Shakespeare Scene Almost Concept Modern Any
Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth. Peter Brook
Truth Theatre Occasionally Capable Moments
As a young man, I experimented with everything. Peter Brook
Man Young Everything Young Man

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