Simon McBurney Quotations

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

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.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.