Nunn, Trevor Filmography

• 56th BFI London Film Festival
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Les Misérables
  2012, role: miscellaneous crew
• Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• King Lear
  2008, role: director
• Acorn Antiques: The Musical
  2006, role: director
• TV's 50 Greatest Stars
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Greatest Musicals
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 56th Annual Tony Awards
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Director of a Musical
• Oklahoma!
  1999, role: miscellaneous crew
• Oklahoma!
  1999, role: director
• Twelfth Night or What You Will
  1996, role: director
• Twelfth Night or What You Will
  1996, role: writer
• Aspects of Love
  1993, role: miscellaneous crew
• Lady Jane
  1986, role: director
• Idomeneo
  1983, role: miscellaneous crew
• Playing Shakespeare
  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Playing Shakespeare
  1982, role: writer
• Playing Shakespeare
  1982, role: writer
• Playing Shakespeare
  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Three Sisters
  1981, role: director
• A Performance of Macbeth
  1979, role: writer
• A Performance of Macbeth
  1979, role: miscellaneous crew
• A Performance of Macbeth
  1979, role: producer
• The Comedy of Errors
  1978, role: miscellaneous crew
• The Comedy of Errors
  1978, role: writer
• Hedda
  1975, role: writer
• Hedda
  1975, role: director
• Antony and Cleopatra
  1974, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Trevor Nunn:

"I think part of Kevin's notion of being involved with the Old Vic was because he wants to blood himself with Shakespeare,"

"I've never thought it strange to do highly contrasting things. I always thought it was all part and parcel of theatrical expression. At school, I loved doing revues, I was in a rock 'n' roll group and I staged a couple of musical events, then, when I left, I formed a little company to do Hamlet."

"Victoria is a clever satirist, ... She understands the awfulness that's at the heart of a lot of modern culture."

"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."

"I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater."

"I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera."

"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

"I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm."

"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant."

"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."