Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytneris a theatre director, film director, and film producer. He was previously the Artistic Director of London's National Theatre. His major successes while director include Miss Saigon, The History Boys and One Man, Two Guvnors...
assume hatchet homosexual
They are all kind of the same letter, all handwritten or typed. They all assume that the play is about Paul's being homosexual and misogynist; they assume it's going to be a prurient hatchet job.
mike nervous reputation
Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.
appears conversation guess knows might nobody puts took truly until wants
I had a guess what it might be about, but this took me completely by surprise. And he delivers a play, as he puts it, before he truly knows what it's about. He wants a conversation about what it is that appears to be working, and where it is he appears to be going. Until he's got to that point, nobody knows about it.
audience moaning repertoire
That would be doing to our audience and our repertoire what I'm moaning about.
popular quite realize
Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.
absolutely months nine past producing stuff thrilled
They have been working on it for the past nine months and I have been absolutely thrilled by the stuff they have been producing together.
absolutely artist brilliant family mike
With an artist like Mike Leigh, you give him what he wants. I'm thrilled. ... I think it's an absolutely brilliant family drama.
bill climate government religious whatever
There is a new climate of religious intolerance in Britain. Whatever the government says, this new bill is pandering to that intolerance.