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Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney
English Actor
Born: Aug 25, 1957
Me People Sense Theatre Time You
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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. Simon McBurney
Lost Sense Guess Tries Open Exciting Makes Brain Up Begins Gets Stop Working Things Speculate
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
Death Truth Bible Dignity Confession Guilt Face Interpretation Everyone Hopelessness About Something Sees Baffling Absurd Reveals Person Endgame Different Apocalypse Meaningless Painful Each Play Portrait Watching Night Babble
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise. Simon McBurney
Music Heart Words Otherwise Flute Magic Proposition Attending Mozart Should Means Expressed Expresses
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience. Simon McBurney
You Theatre Comedy Club Feel Comedy Club Because Audience Got Then Play Streets
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?' Simon McBurney
You Words Impossible Our Our Lives Alive Idea Encapsulate Go Continuing Years Improvisation Quite Just Next Sequence Now Lives Actually Things
If you're an actor, go out and act. Simon McBurney
You Out Go Act Actor
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Simon McBurney
Wonderful Say Ourselves About Most Piece Storytelling
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
Politics War Needs People Sense Living France Ways About Betrayal Directly Shame Talk Well Felt Iraq Articulated Did Going Just Different While Asked Many Different Ways Why Profound Plays
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
You World Try Something Opens Attracted Another Because Deal Understand Door Naturally
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. Simon McBurney
Me You Strong Responsibility Sense Others Rules Strong Sense Directing Exciting Like Always Exhausting Wanting Break Holiday Acting
The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it. Simon McBurney
You Control Constantly About More Look Brain Questions Closer Us
'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. Simon McBurney
Time Man Master About Write Writes Unconscious He Supposed Story Who Deeply
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. Simon McBurney
Reality Mind Only Audience Exists Theater
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say. Simon McBurney
Death Me Experience Father Meet Say Would Taboo Nobody Know Because Still Died After
The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell. Simon McBurney
Beautiful You Will Whatever Hell Unlike Willing Constantly Follow About Something Touching Fires Know Opera Singers Sort Doing Very Want Who Actor Why Thing
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. Simon McBurney
Music Father Parents Some Classical Classical Music Adored Had Reaction Always Loved Against Mozart Reason
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. Simon McBurney
Art Day World Will Closed Others Projected Rightly Inside See Haunted Never Over Since Like Known Always Go Cave Discovery Site Quite Wanted Public Many Earliest
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. Simon McBurney
Food Garden Vegetables Impossible Walk Mountains Live Everything France Out Find Eat Something Through Friends Sells Irresistible Bursting Them Who Her
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. Simon McBurney
Day Every Day Remember Mother Every Imagination Summer Would Seem Delicious Fact Delivered Most Make Middle-Aged Now Milk
Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic. Simon McBurney
People Restaurant Most Order Fantastic
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. Simon McBurney
Food Key Mother Smell Gave Kind One Of The Things Small Concentrated Look Looked How Different Dying Realised Different Kind Cooked Nourishment Plate Even Her Amount Things
I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth. Simon McBurney
Crazy Words Sometimes Mouth Projected Says Out Would Someone Something Written Instead Spoken Feel Like Endgame Being Where Crazy Things Things
I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat? Simon McBurney
Constantly Table Cat Know Want
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. Simon McBurney
Time People City London Shakespeare Over Were Same Same Time Tokyo Million
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time. Simon McBurney
God Time You Theatre Reality Sense Everything Clear Particular Makes Audience Sake Create Specific
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light. Simon McBurney
You Soul Light Everything Strips Hopeful Find About Something Remains Bottom Beckett Surgical Endgame Ask Away
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