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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.

Trevor Nunn

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Trevor Nunn
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Film Director
Film Producer
Theatre Director
Theatrical Director
Ipswich (parish)
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn
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Imagination
Working
Imaginations
Rather
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Better
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Believe
Planning
Always
Management
Telling

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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
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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.
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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
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Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.
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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.
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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
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