Charlatans Quote by Simon McBurney

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the…

— Harold Prince

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most…

— Mike Bartlett

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I…

— Simon McBurney

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people…

— Charles Dickens

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my…

— Joe Wright

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you…

— Zeljko Ivanek

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater…

— Nick Blaemire

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live.…

— Stephen Sondheim