Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in nee…

- Trevor Nunn

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.

- Trevor Nunn

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

- Trevor Nunn

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe tha…

- Trevor Nunn

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that …

- Trevor Nunn

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

- Trevor Nunn

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

- Trevor Nunn

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a…

- Trevor Nunn

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

- Trevor Nunn