“I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.” WayPlayMovingChallengesMysteryMetsTheaterMessProseTranslateBrethren Author:Ben Brantley
“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.” KindWantedSchoolLawActorsProcessChallengesComedyJudgingPoliticianTheaterRehearsalLaw SchoolSmittenWorking With Others Author:Rashida Jones
“As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.” ThinkingBigsFeltChallengesRoomsAttentionWallWalkingTheaterStairsExhibitionsMovie TheaterBig Challenges Author:Wade Guyton
“Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.” MenWould BeHoursChallengesDarkSawsTheaterMythMilesGenuineHeyVillainInherentSuperheroSpidersManhattanPrimalColorfulSpider ManSkyscraper Author:Julie Taymor
“One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.” WantFeelsTryingChallengesTalkingTheaterLike SomethingCinematicTalking Heads Author:Morgan Neville
“Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.” FactsAmericaUsedChallengesHavensHollywoodTheaterKoreaStoker Author:Park Chan-wook
“I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.” TryingLongFunChallengesInterestingTheater Author:Malcolm McDowell
“I think I got into acting because I kind of had not much else to do! I guess I was kind of looking for something challenging. I heard about the London Theater scene and it was very different from the upbringing that I had and it felt like a challenge. And the whole sort of London Theater schools, I was told that 6,000 apply and there are like 30 accepted to each one. I was like, "Yeah. Let's see if we can do that!"” IfsThinkingKindDifferentWholeSchoolFeltCan DoChallengesActingHeardSceneTheaterYeahLondonAcceptedUpbringing Author:Jeremy Irvine
“When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Bros. and Sony, and all that, because they haven't kept their attention and challenged them. They're smart little kids that are bored, and I wanted to challenge them.” ThinkingLittlesKidsWantedChallengesAttentionHavensSmartTheaterTriumphBoredApplesLittle KidIphoneTextingMovie TheaterBrosSonyWarner Bros Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentDoneWould BeAsksChallengesCreativeRiskTheaterMediumsNew ThingsCreative PeopleWorld Love Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.” PeopleWayStoriesShowsFormTermChallengesImpossibleProduceStrangeExcitingTheaterMethodMusicalCaughtThese DaysCaught UpMusical Theater Author:Nick Blaemire
“I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.” WantFeelsLongHomeActorsChallengesAudienceAliveTheaterTiredProductions Author:Gillian Anderson
“The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.” WayHas BeensSaidFilmMotherChallengesAudienceShareLessonsTheaterMeetings Author:Sam Pressman
“Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.” ChallengesCreativeTheaterMaking MoneyBe Creative Author:Val Kilmer
“In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.” PeopleIfsYearsKindEnoughChallengesFiveGroupsTvsLuckySixTheaterSeriesSevenCastsBunchEach DayCrewSeven Years Author:Denis Leary
“For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.” WorldSpiritualOrderChallengesJusticeVisionTheaterVillageDelayImperativesEmergingWorld OrderLivelihoodPeace And JusticeProactiveGlobal VillageSpiritual Vision Author:Agnivesh