'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness. Simon McBurney changeconsciousnessflute Change image and share on social
Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. Simon McBurney interestmakeplay Change image and share on social
'Mnemonic' is a play about memory. Simon McBurney memorymnemonicplay Change image and share on social
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. Simon McBurney badfeltkid Change image and share on social
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something. Simon McBurney collectconductorcreative share on social
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development. Simon McBurney arthurartisticastonishment share on social
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 askbeckettbottom Change image and share on social
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. Simon McBurney assumebaggagecast Change image and share on social
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else. Simon McBurney charlatanentertainmentfake share on social
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 artcavechauvet share on social
