Trevor Nunn Quotations

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 skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

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

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

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

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 that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

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 I obviously needed.

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

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.