One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
— Trevor Nunn · Complex
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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
— Trevor Nunn · Complex
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“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
“So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.”
“A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.”
“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”
“You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.”
“The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.”
“Political talk on TV has degenerated so much. You can say something complex on 'The West Wing' and you will not suffer a screaming interruption by three other panelists.”
“When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'”
“I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.”
“Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.”
“All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.”
“Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.”