“My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not wo...” — Simon McBurney Quote

“My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.”

“We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.”

“'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.”

“Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.”

“I don't know any other way to lead but by example.”

“There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.”