Theatre Quotes

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

I think there is no world without theatre.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.