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" Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. "
Interesting
You
Something
" As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor. "
Love
Acting
Child
" 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. "
Work
I Am
Movies
" 'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience. "
Forget
Life
You
" Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. "
Face
Truth
Death
" For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules. "
Responsibility
You
Me
" For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art. "
Science
Years
Art
" For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera. "
Bit
Opera
Years
" 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. "
See
Discovery
Art
" I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there. "
You
Messy
Creativity
" I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat? "
Cat
Constantly
Know
" I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete. "
I Am
Work
You
" I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a separate entity. "
You
Treat
Think
" I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.' "
Saying
Just
Decision
" I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody. "
Nobody
Theatre
Me
" I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience. "
Play
Feel
Comedy
" 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. "
Walk
Food
Impossible
" If you're an actor, go out and act. "
You
Act
Actor
" I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in. "
Nothing
Always
Born
" 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. "
Own
Trying
Creative
" 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. "
Door
Deal
You
" I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. "
Way
Feel
Music
" In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. "
London
Same
Time
" 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. "
Mind
Mystery
Someone
" In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here. "
Theatre
Mean
Listen
" In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at. "
Hard
Know
Looking
" In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else. "
Tradition
Fake
New
" In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players. "
Looking
Look
You
" In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. "
Charlatans
Liars
Theatre
" 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. "
Day
Remember
Now
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