Marianne Elliott : (3) " I feel that if you’re going to do theater, you’ve really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it’s quite a fine line between those two things. " - Marianne Elliott " I suppose what’s so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it’s a subsidized theatre, you’re not trying to create a product that’s going to have a mass market in order to make the money back. " - Marianne Elliott " Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I’m terrified. " - Marianne Elliott