Fixation Quote by Antonin Artaud

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they…

— Sam Shepard

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have…

— Tom Stoppard

Cinema by itself is a language.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Tony Harrison

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I…

— Lynn Nottage

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice,…

— David Hume

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney