Art Quote by Mike Figgis

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

— Miranda Otto

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

— Paul Dano

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind…

— Timothy Simons

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because…

— Lucy Dacus

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

— Mahesh Babu

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

— Kerris Dorsey

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

— Bill Pullman

I always wanted to do theatre but never really took it up, as I was more inclined towards dance and films.

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

— Patrick J. Adams