Declan Donnellan Quotes & Sayings

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious — Declan Donnellan

If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt. — Declan Donnellan

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival ... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define. — Declan Donnellan

Love happens when we pay attention — Declan Donnellan