Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because it was never quite what I wa…

- Simon Mcburney

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

- Simon Mcburney

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A …

- Simon Mcburney

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative…

- Simon Mcburney

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of…

- Simon Mcburney

I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might s…

- Simon Mcburney

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bon…

- Simon Mcburney

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

- Simon Mcburney

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with c…

- Simon Mcburney