I suppose I’m really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level. Simon McBurney Read Quote
Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world’s earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public. Simon McBurney Read Quote
I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out – it’s impossible not to eat something. Simon McBurney Read Quote
I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes. Simon McBurney Read Quote
When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind. Simon McBurney Read Quote
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen. Simon McBurney Read Quote
Shostakovich’s final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. Simon McBurney Read Quote
As an actor, it’s much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I’ve done in another movie. I really enjoy that. Simon McBurney Read Quote
I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with ‘Endgame,’ where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth. Simon McBurney Read Quote
