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I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.
— Simon McBurney
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Simon McBurney
theatrical director, actor, screenwriter, film producer, playwright
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Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE, is an English actor, playwright, and theatre and opera director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Friends with Money, The Last King of Scotland, The Golden Compass (2007), The Duchess (2008), Robin Hood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Magic in the Moonlight, The Theory of Everything, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), and Nosferatu (2024). He played Cecil the choirmaster in BBC's The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2004).
All Quotes by Simon McBurney
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
— Simon McBurney
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Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
— Simon McBurney