Theatre Quotes
-
I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.
-
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
-
Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
-
Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
-
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
-
How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king.
-
The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.
-
If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.
-
I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.
-
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.
-
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
-
Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
-
The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be loud dive bar, small theatre, festival is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.
-
Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
-
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
-
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
-
It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
-
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.
-
Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.
-
I love the theatre and theatre people.
-
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.
-
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
-
In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
-
London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.
