Confidence Quote by Abi Morgan

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't…

— Steve Earle

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond…

— Aaron Sorkin

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

— A. R. Ammons

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

— Julie Taymor

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a…

— Israel Horovitz

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story…

— Sterling K. Brown

What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what…

— Mike Bartlett