“The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.” IfsThinkingMayPlayRememberFunTermApproachStandardsTheaterSurpriseResponseBlockInnocenceLiberatingHalfwayChildlikeAvant GardeWheeling Author:Edward Albee
“Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.” WayDifferentFilmGivenPerspectiveApproachTheaterDifferent Perspective Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.” PeopleIfsTryingDifferentApproachTheaterCamerasFascinatedTruthfulDifferent PeoplesBeing TruthfulDifferent Approach Author:Kenneth Branagh
“If what I think is God should come down today and says "I'm God, or the thing you call God, and you're never going to do any more movies. You're never going to do television. You're never going to do theater again in your life," I would just say "What are we doing? What is the next step?" That's how I try to approach it.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingTodayNextStepsTelevisionApproachTheaterNext Steps Author:Peter Stormare
“I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.” IfsMightApproachTheaterEnthusiasm Author:David Hockney
“In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in Canada). Our standard approach is not to cookie cut things. Every market is different, every theater is different. The devil's in the details.” DifferentCommonSuccessfulCuttingIndustryApproachStandardsDevilCapacityTheaterDetailsCommon SenseCanadaCookies Author:Gerry Lopez
“I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeWholeSchoolGamesActingFocusApproachTheater Author:Mackenzie Davis
“Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.” KnowsWayKindPlayUseDreamSongMemoriesKnow HowApproachTheaterRelyReviewsJordanCover SongsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"” PeopleDifferentDreamMovingViewsPiecesMagicStageApproachTheaterPoint Of ViewTricksStorytellingCardsCoinsCard Tricks Author:David Copperfield
“Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.” DifferentJobsFilmTermTelevisionApproachTheaterCamerasTechniqueMediumsCraftsTranslateFilm And Television Author:Joe Morton