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" My dad had a big influence on me, and although I was never very bright at school, I used to love philosophising with him about big universal things - and I think that's what directing is. "

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" We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual. "

Marianne Elliott

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Way

Perspective

" I hope that subsidised theatres continue to be rewarded for the wonder of talent they provide to this industry, on stage and off. "

" You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody. "

" It's difficult to find an actress prepared to play a fading star. "

" It would be quite interesting to use Kermit the Frog to act like a real frog. But it wouldn't produce captivating theatre. "

Marianne Elliott

Interesting

Frog

" I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.' "

" It's impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you're always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result. "

" If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!' "

" I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it. "

" I suppose that I'm excited by exciting theater. It takes a risk to show us the world in a new way. "

Marianne Elliott

Risk

Way

" There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging. "

" When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years. "

" I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have happened. "

Marianne Elliott

Seen

Things

" As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school. "

" Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified. "

" With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved. "

" If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards. "

" I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it. "

" Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time. "

" The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists. "

Marianne Elliott

Landscape

Bottom

" I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic. "

" I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress. "

" I always wanted to beat my own path. "