Quotes by Trevor Nunn

Trevor Nunn

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Analysis

Hygiene

Literature

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.

Believe

Imagination

Planning

I had a feeling about Shakespeare’s soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Actors

Feelings

Real

I’ve experienced a private doubt, something that I’ve kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Doubt

People

Pieces

If you feel very deeply about something, it’s not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Integrity

Sacrifice

Very Deep

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

Arrogance

Creativity

Self Confidence

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

Father

Men

War

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

Passionate

Teacher

Teens

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.

Artistic

Integrity

Limits

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Complexes

Fine

Play

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Believe

Cambridge University

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Father

Feelings

Fine

Historical

Hygiene

Imagination

Integrity

Kids

Limits

Literature

Men

Musical

Parent

Passionate

People

Pieces

Planning

Play

Real

Royal

Sacrifice

Self Confidence

Song

Teacher

Teens

Theater

Very Deep

Wanted

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Winning

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Quotes by Trevor Nunn

Trevor Nunn

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

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.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare’s soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

I’ve experienced a private doubt, something that I’ve kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

If you feel very deeply about something, it’s not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

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.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

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