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" 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. "
John Tiffany
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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 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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" Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash. "
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" 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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" 'Philistines' was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, 'I'm so bored.' "
John Tiffany
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" I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off. "
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Off
Glasgow
" Theatre is a playground. It really is, and we should use that playground more. "
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More
Playground
" If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often. "
John Tiffany
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Food
" I'll always have a relationship with Scotland. "
John Tiffany
Always
Relationship
Scotland
" I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it. "
John Tiffany
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Just Because
People
" There are always discussions about casting stars in lead roles in theater - especially when you're working with commercial producers - and it's not something I'm against, not at all. But any casting has to be right for the project. "
John Tiffany
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Project
Always
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Me
Music
Words
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Moment
Time
Black
" Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them. "
John Tiffany
Job
Stars
Sometimes
" I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story. "
John Tiffany
Easy
Aspire
Audience
" I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh. "
John Tiffany
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Theatre
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" I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space. "
John Tiffany
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" Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre. "
John Tiffany
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Theatre
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" I want to understand the anger in the world. "
John Tiffany
World
Want
Understand
" 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 did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland. "
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Did
Films
" 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. "
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" 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. "
John Tiffany
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" When I get really down, I remember that we all share 99.99 per cent of our DNA with Beyonce. And suddenly, the world doesn't seem too bleak. "
John Tiffany
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" When I sold my flat in Glasgow, I bought a little cottage on the North Yorkshire coast. Whenever we go up from London to stay there, I'm just like, 'I'm home! I'm home in Bronte-land!' "
John Tiffany
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" No space should be safe from theatre. "
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" 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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" Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath. "
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Space
Theatre
" 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. "
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