The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
— Simon McBurney · Taboo
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.
Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.
Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.
Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.
I love the fact we do break taboos.
We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.