Peter Brook Quotes

#1. I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Brendan Fraser

#2. You cannot not communicate.

Paul Watzlawick

#3. I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.

Osamu Dazai

#4. I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress ... It's like a secret society up there.

Kitty Kelley

#5. There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

Peter Brook

#6. Rogers and Zinger hustling, and they hadn't been kidding about pain. His leg throbbed at the move, a deep ache that felt different than it had a few hours ago. Please don't let me lose it. They

Annabeth Albert

#7. Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

James C. Collins

#8. I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

Peter Brook

#9. Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Nathan Myhrvold

#10. Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

Peter Brook

#11. As he watched the creatures that had stolen his world for another night, Arlen dreamed of bringing those wards back. He dreamed of traveling beyond Tibbet's Brook, and resolved that he would leave one day, even if it meant spending a night outside.
With the demons.

Peter V. Brett

#12. I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Peter Brook

#13. Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

Peter Brook

#14. People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

Charlie Munger

#15. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

Peter Brook

#16. Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

Peter Brook

#17. Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

John Abercrombie

#18. The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

#19. The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

Peter Brook

#20. We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him
if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Peter Brook

#21. The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

Peter Brook

#22. An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Peter Brook

#23. A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Peter Brook

#24. Weird or someone with mouth diarrhea. Depends on people's point of view,

Stephanie Witter

#25. I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.

Peter Hargreaves

#26. The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Peter Brook

#27. Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Peter Brook

#28. Our problems are manmade
therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable
and we believe they can do it again.

John F. Kennedy

#29. It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Peter Brook

#30. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.

Peter Brook

#31. Well, Connor doesn't believe in magic. If Hogwarts actually existed I'm sure they'd send an owl to shit on his head.

Krista Ritchie

#32. In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

Peter Brook

#33. Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, Then we would have serious problems.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic