Simon McBurney Time Quotations

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.