1. Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is a British theatre and film director and innovator.Born in Chiswick, west London, the second son of Simon and Ida Brook, and educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalen College, Oxford. more..more..

2. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook: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. #Money#Money

3. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook:The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. #Cinema#Cinema

4. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook: Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all. #Audiences#Audiences

5. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook: 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. #Music#Music

6. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook:An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? #Uniforms#Uniforms

7. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook: The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good. #Acting and Actors#Acting and Actors

8. “ Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook:Everything is impossible so just quit. #Perseverance#Perseverance

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