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I think restaurants and family homes and stuff are about conversation and about chatting. Food is there because you want to enjoy it and have fun with it but I'm not there to study it - I'm there to spend time with my friends.
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My earliest memory of cooking is my grandmother showing me how to make chicken gravy on the big combustion stove in her kitchen. I still use Nana's gravy recipe.
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Cooking steak is a joy because it is a terrific piece of meat that has great flavour whether it is grilled or pan-fried.
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We're all so busy we don't make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.
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We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.
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Theatre is a playground. It really is, and we should use that playground more.
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My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.
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The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.
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When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.
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The idea of audiences becoming part of the show is, I think, where theatre is going.
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Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place.
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There are always discussions about casting stars in lead roles in theater - especially when you're working with commercial producers - and it's not something I'm against, not at all. But any casting has to be right for the project.
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I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.
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How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king.
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I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.
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For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.
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I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.
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I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do.
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I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
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I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.
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I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
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In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.
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I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.
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Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.
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You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.
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It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
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I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
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Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.
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I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?
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'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.
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