Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Marianne Elliott - Page 2

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

I never want to see 'Hamlet' ever again! Never ever!

It's impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you're always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

I always loved and secretly wanted to do 'Company.' It was produced on Broadway in 1970, and it's about a successful 35-year-old guy who's starting to think he should get married.

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That's a whole untold part of our world.

I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and where I'm going.

What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.