I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living -… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
“What I know now is that I would be a different person, or at the least a better version of myself, more… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers… — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York,… — Erin Maya Darke Copy Share Image
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department,… — David Selby Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I… — Mac Wellman Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television. — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on… — David Anders Copy Share Image
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
