Trevor Nunn Quotes

Trevor Nunn — English Director born on January 14, 1940,

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE is an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed musicals and dramas for the stage, as well as opera. His well-known musicals are Cats and Les Misérables. His dramas include Nicholas Nickleby and Macbeth. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, winning the Tony Award for Cats and Les Misérables and the Olivier Award for Summerfolk / The Merchant of Venice / Troilus and Cressida; and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby... (wikipedia)

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

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.

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

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