Trevor Nunn Quotes

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

You can only do so much theatre.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

Theater is hard.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I started a theater company when I was 17.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

Acting is very immediate.

I think there is no world without theatre.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.