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Theatre Director Inspirational Quotes (110)

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A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
Anne Bogart
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You cannot hide your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
Anne Bogart
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The object is freedom.
Anne Bogart
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It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
Anne Bogart
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Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.
Anna D. Shapiro
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If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.
Joan Littlewood
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You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
Anne Bogart
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
Harold Clurman
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The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.
Vsevolod Meyerhold
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Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order to. To create, in other words, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals as such.
George Ogilvie
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Policy is the people you work with.
William Gaskill
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A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.
Mary Zimmerman
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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
Trevor Nunn
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I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.
Susan Stroman
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The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
Peter Brook
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I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
Susan Stroman
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I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
Roger Michell
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Drama is exposure it is confrontation it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Peter Brook
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I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
Luchino Visconti
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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.
Trevor Nunn
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I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.
Steve Cosson
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When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.
Thea Sharrock
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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.
Trevor Nunn
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Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
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