Big screen Quote by Stephanie Zacharek

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

— Tony Kushner

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

— Viola Davis

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

— James Lapine

A lot of the magic is off-Broadway.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

In theatres, you're kind of disconnected. Also, it's way too big for the likes of me. Unless you're Robin Williams or someone that can…

— Norm MacDonald

Now I know that however big a film, you have every right over how you want to be seen on screen.

— Sai Pallavi

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

— Joseph Bologna

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything…

— Jason Silva

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly.…

— Clive Owen

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

— Sian Clifford

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

— Naseeruddin Shah

It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my…

— Sergio Leone