"Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production."

-- Simon McBurney

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“Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.”
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
“At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.”
“Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books
“I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.”

Source : "Shane Black Explains How He Adapted Warren Ellis’ “Extremis” Storyline into IRON MAN 3; New Poster Released" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 6, 2013.
“To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.”

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