Simon McBurney : (3)

" I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong. " - Simon McBurney

" My proposition is that music is at the heart of what ‘The Magic Flute’ means: that it’s Mozart’s music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can’t be expressed otherwise. " - Simon McBurney

" In France, they call the people who come to the theatre ‘les spectateurs’; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here. " - Simon McBurney