“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.” TryingLinesActingStepsAudienceEffectsStageMonthsPerformancesTheaterImprovementRepetitionReciting Author:Alfred Molina
“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.” ThinkingFeelsShouldTryingPersonsDifferentHardPlayCharacterClassOne ThingEffectsTheaterWho You AreRelateHelpful Author:Ryan Gosling
“Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.” WayHumansReasonHumanityLostSpecialEffectsReflectionTheaterEndureObscureSpecial Effects Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.” ArtFilmPurposeArtistSongActorsEffectsEventsTragedyTheaterHistoricalEtcEpicAlienationTransparencyChorusHistorical Context Author:Bertolt Brecht
“How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!” ShouldArtCausesResultsBehindsEffectsRegretFineTheaterIntenseImperfectMemorialFine ArtsTransientHistrionic Book:Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals Source: Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals
“In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.” IfsStillsEnoughCharacterStoriesMightAudienceEffectsTheaterVisualsLackingVisual Effects Author:Doug Liman
“It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.” PeopleIfsWantHeartSoulStoriesUsedWalksMillionsSpecialEffectsColdTheaterStudiosUsed To BeMaking MoneyLeaving MeExplosionsSpecial Effects Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.” KnowsMenWellsStatesMovingSpaceEffectsTheaterNervousPrimaries Author:Philip Johnson
“All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.” HouseStuffRoomsSpecialEffectsShotsTheaterGreenScreensBasementsSpecial Effects Author:Vickie Winans
“I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percussive and other sounds. He also mixed the sound effects and the music, using the theater's first rate sound system to complement the theater's acoustics. This completed my score.” FirstsYoungSoundEffectsTheaterRateProductionsBrilliantDesignerScoreVocalAcousticsComplementSound SystemsSound Effects Author:Jeff Britting
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.” ArtFormSocialAudienceEffectsCommunicationTheaterVariousMultimedia Author:Wole Soyinka