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" One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to. "

John Tiffany

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" I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday. "

" I want to understand the anger in the world. "

" I'll always have a relationship with Scotland. "

" The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath. "

" I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it! "

" I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential. "

John Tiffany

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" The power of imagination is infinite. "

" 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. "

" You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories. "

" The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional. "

" 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. "

" What has started to interest me is how you use all the different disciplines and tools we have at our disposal, and that includes going into different art forms, like music and movement, because often they can tap into things that characters can't necessarily express through words. Audiences really enjoy that total experience. "

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" I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever. "

" No space should be safe from theatre. "

" I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be? "

" A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in. "

" Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre. "

" I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story. "

" My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it. "

" It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents. "

" I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion. "

" I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off. "

" One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from. "

" We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be. "

" How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king. "

" I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance. "

" When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing. "

" Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales. "

" I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney. "

" 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. "