Anything Quote by James Dean

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

— Samuel Barnett

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to act with…

— Poonam Dhillon

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of…

— Cindy Busby

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

— Helen McCrory

Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.

— Taylor Louderman

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great…

— Lesley Manville

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

— Sydney Greenstreet

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

— David Wenham

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to…

— Jason Alexander

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

— Joseph Bologna

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you…

— Eddie Redmayne

Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think I'll just…

— Gabrielle Carteris