Citazioni Trevor Nunn (original) (raw)
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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.
Arrogance Creativity Self Confidence
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.
Believe Imagination Planning
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
Economic Language Needs
Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.
Beautiful Memories Song
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
Decision Directors Ghouls
One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
Complexes Fine Play
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.
Ensemble Home London
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
Cambridge University Parent Winning
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Royal Theater Wanted
What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.
Humility People Play
When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.
Actors Kids Years
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
Historical Musical War
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.
Decision Listening Views
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
Careers Play Song
In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
Artistic Integrity Limits
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.
Father Men War
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.
Casts Way Would Be
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
Analysis Hygiene Literature
I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
Opportunity Wanted
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
Actors Feelings Real
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