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" Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place. "
John Tiffany
Story
Character
Music
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" 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
" 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
Go
Time
Restaurant
" Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful. "
John Tiffany
End
Sometimes
Know
" The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional. "
John Tiffany
Never
Growing Up
Emotional
" 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
" 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
Way
Believe
Audience
" 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
Go
Up
Home
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Years
Work
Never
" The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath. "
John Tiffany
Production
Evolution
Breath
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Car
Imagination
Swimming
" The idea of audiences becoming part of the show is, I think, where theatre is going. "
John Tiffany
Going
Idea
Show
" I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion. "
John Tiffany
Not Interested
Stage
Want
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Him
Be Different
People
" I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation. But 'Road' was the first time I'd read a play written in a very true Northern dialect that seemed to have that excitement running through it. "
John Tiffany
People
Work
Bond
" 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
" 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
Know
Place
Space
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Got
Never
Opera
" Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts. "
John Tiffany
Back
Philosophy
Think
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Call
Doing
Whole
" I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland. "
John Tiffany
Short Films
Did
Films
" 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
Work
People
Food
" 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. "
John Tiffany
Theatre
Trying
Better
" Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking. "
John Tiffany
Success
Think
Broadway
" I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello. "
John Tiffany
Sucker
Exploitative
Cello
" I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever. "
John Tiffany
Ever
Never
Get
" There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out. "
John Tiffany
See
Something
Before
" Usually, in theatre, you're adapting existing material or creating an entirely new play. With the 'Cursed Child,' we have been given the unique opportunity to explore some of the most cherished books and beloved characters ever written, yet work with J. K. Rowling to tell a story from that world that no one yet knows - it's exhilarating. "
John Tiffany
Opportunity
Child
World
" Broadway is full of crazy people. "
John Tiffany
Crazy
Broadway
People
" I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off. "
John Tiffany
Since
Off
Glasgow