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There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

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For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

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My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

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Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

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When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

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I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

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Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

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If you're an actor, go out and act.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: August 25th, 1957

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