I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never… — David Hare Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
“When I enter the theater and there is a show onstage, it makes me feel safe in the knowledge that the world… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how… — Lindsay Pearce Copy Share Image
In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ...… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out,… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a… — Troy Donahue Copy Share Image
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff,… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is only so long you can go from film to film to film. Theatre is a more raw experience. For an… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
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