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26 quotes by Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed musicals and dramas for the stage, as well as opera. His well-known musicals are Cats (1981) and Les Misérables (1985). His dramas include Nicholas Nickleby and Macbeth. He has been...
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What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written... →

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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close... →

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In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly... →

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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

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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.

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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we... →

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In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It... →

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

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