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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#day #directed #discovered #fine #fine day

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#ensemble #going #hall #happening #home

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#before #brand #brand new #career #done

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#decision #director #else #film #final

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#because #big #big break #break #cambridge

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk. ↗


— Elena Kagan


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When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left. ↗


— Trevor Nunn


#either #ends #faced #i #intact

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death. ↗


— Alan Nunnelee


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