Peter Brook - biography

“An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing.  Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”

“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.”

Peter Brook directed the following films:
The Beggar’s Opera (1953)
Moderato cantabile (1960)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Ride of the Valkyrie (1967)
Marat/Sade (1967)
Tell Me Lies (1968)
King Lear (1971)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
La tragédie de Carmen (1983)


Peter Brook contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Tell Me Lies (1968)
King Lear (1971)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
Un amour de Swann (1984)