Trevor Nunn Quotes

I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.

'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

Hartford had the Mark Twain Masquers, which was fantastic. They had been in business I don't know how many years. They knew how to build sets and sell tickets and put on a play. My day started at night. When I left the office, that's when my day began.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

The work I did with Artists Collective led me to a scholarship at Uconn… It led to me getting a scholarship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a scholarship at Trinity Rep in Providence.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

Any musical is a major undertaking.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

I did it once in high school - I was Sandy in Grease - and I decided then that I would never do it again. I've felt that way for years, and that's no bullshit.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.