“I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordina...” — Simon McBurney Quote

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

The union that is the United Kingdom has been extraordinarily successful. Our British family has cooperated brilliantly, working together with shared goals and values, to make a unique four-country multinational success.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.