Simon McBurney Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
August 25, 1957

Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films The Manchurian Candidate, Friends with Money, The Golden Compass, The Duchess, Robin Hood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Magic in the Moonlight, The Theory of Everything and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.

Simon McBurney
- Work
- Way
- Sector
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Simon McBurney
- Present
- Theatre
- Exist

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

Simon McBurney
I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Simon McBurney
- World
- Door
- Understand
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 lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

Simon McBurney
If you're an actor, go out and act.

Simon McBurney
- Actor
- Act
- Go Out
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Simon McBurney
- Say
- Storytelling
- Piece
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Simon McBurney
- Music
- Theatre
- Audience

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Simon McBurney
- Writing
- Find
- Pleasure
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

Simon McBurney
- Reality
- Audience
- Theater