Quotes by Peter 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?

Everything is possible but you must find your own way. So, if you look at my work and think, 'Ah there is an example, I will start by what he's done', you are bound to go wrong. Because the work that I do today is the result of all the work that I've done through trial and error, in changing times.

I think one has to recognise in terms of craft, that this new craft of ours is very, very young. For the word 'carpenter' or 'stone-maker' or 'jeweler' to come into existence thousands of years had to go by. But for directors, it's been just a hundred years.

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.