Trevor Nunn

“What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.”

“I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.”

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

“I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.”

“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.”

“A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.”