Quotes About Peter Brooks

Few have had the good fortune I have had. My start in the business was with people like Peter Brooks and Michael Redgrave. Also, growing up as I did with a father in the military taught me to accept discipline and responsibility.

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.

Your Paris is only a mudhole." To which Vautrin responds with a new generalization: "And a very strange mudhole," he says. "Those whose carriage gets muddy in its streets are respectable, those who get muddy on foot are crooks. Have the misfortune to snatch some trifle and you are put on display in the law courts. Steal a million, you're noted in the drawing rooms as a man of honor.