Audience Quote by Julian Ovenden

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

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 feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be…

— Dan Amboyer

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

— Megan Hilty

I used to do theatre in school and college. When I started working on television, only the camera was new. Theatre experience really helps…

— Sriti Jha

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

Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces. And you…

— Susan Sarandon

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

— Amanda Schull

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything,…

— Ian Mckellen

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but…

— Frank Capra

Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that motion pictures…

— Vince Gilligan