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" I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday. "
John Tiffany
Sunday
Two
Weekend
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" I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off. "
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" I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello. "
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" The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is. "
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" I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion. "
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" I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory. "
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End
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" Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre. "
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Theatre
Real
" It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents. "
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You
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" I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story. "
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Aspire
Audience
" When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure. "
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Easy
Lonely
" I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms. "
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Art
I Love
" Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath. "
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Space
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" I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed. "
John Tiffany
People
Growing Up
Going
" In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich. "
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Car
Imagination
Swimming
" I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh. "
John Tiffany
Lucky
Theatre
Enough
" The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.' "
John Tiffany
You
Work
Choice
" Trump is like an eater of worlds from an 'Avengers' movie, but there seem to be different rules for him. What are Twitter doing, for example? He's constantly breaking their rules, the sort of stuff other people get thrown off for. "
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Him
Be Different
People
" I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity. "
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Long
Want
Army
" Broadway is full of crazy people. "
John Tiffany
Crazy
Broadway
People
" I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do. "
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Love
Watch
You
" I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw. "
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Well
Personal
First
" For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world. "
John Tiffany
World
Real
Me
" 'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it. "
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Theatre
Black
Kind
" There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out. "
John Tiffany
See
Something
Before
" Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them. "
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Job
Stars
Sometimes
" The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath. "
John Tiffany
Production
Evolution
Breath
" In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present. "
John Tiffany
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Believe
Audience
" I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it. "
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Never
Opera
" I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it. "
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Think
Just Because
People
" I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family. "
John Tiffany
Time
Family
Life
" I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror. "
John Tiffany
Blood
Stage
Equal