Theater Quotes
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
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The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
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The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.
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To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
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It's as if these dogs are putting on theater.
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My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
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I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.
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Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.
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I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
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I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
