Simon McBurney Quotes

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then try to understand the nature of mechanics by looking at how the physical parts interact with each other, so that's biochemistry.