“With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.” WayFilmLosesPayAttentionAudienceTheaterStuckEnormousMediumsSeatsPaceRestless Author:Emma Donoghue
“In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.” EndsUseFilmLinesAudienceCuttingFrontsTvsDirectorsPerformancesTheaterCreditThe End Of The DayAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Jonathan Groff
“I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles.” WantKindFilmYoungArtistActorsInterestingFictionStepsRolesTvsDirectorsAdultsTheaterScriptsYoung Adult Author:Max Irons
“I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.” WorldFilmTermVisionProduceSucceedTheaterOptimisticNarrativeDisillusionmentHomogeneousHomogeneity Author:Lucrecia Martel
“I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.” ThinkingWorldWritingYearsSchoolFilmYoungCoursesFiveReturnTheaterNewspapersHungryAround The WorldFive YearsOperaFilm School Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.” FilmInterestTheaterTeenagerFilmmakerAfternoonViewersDowntownSantiago Author:Omar Zuniga
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.” StillsDifferentCharacterAbleFilmTalkingTelevisionTheaterCamerasFoundationInstinctIntimateBasicsGroundingBallgame Author:Rose Leslie
“Ultimately, we want to provide people with a unique experience, and an unexpected one as well. We'd like people to leave the theater having questions, being intrigued, wanting to know more, and forming their own opinions about the characters and the world we created. We'd like the film and its images to stick around in people's heads, possibly be recalled every time the letter "H" comes up in everyday life.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantWellsCharacterFilmOpinionUniqueLettersTheaterSticksEverydayCome UpUnexpectedEveryday LifeIntriguedUnique Experiences Author:Rania Attieh
“With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.” ThinkingChildrenFilmWalkingSceneTheaterProtagonistsWalking Out Author:Oscar Torre
“What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.” PeopleWantWritingIdeasFilmNovelComedyTheaterWhat You WantMediumsSatireLectures Author:Justin Simien
“Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.” PeopleArtTogetherFilmFormDarkTalkingWonderfulLonelinessTheaterCinemaCollectivesAlone In The Dark Author:Joachim Trier
“Today, you'll have a following for a film before it even hits theaters. We can reach out and touch our audience in ways that they couldn't. So it's about getting eyes, getting interest, and getting people involved.” PeopleWayEyeTodayFilmInterestAudienceInvolvedTheaterFollowingReach Out Author:Lena Waithe
“Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.” IfsMenPlayFilmCompanySupportHe ManFemaleTheaterDollarsGapsFewerDistribution Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.” IfsFeelsPersonsDifferentFilmAnimalAliveMaterialsDisciplineEssenceTheaterShootingRight PersonMiningExecutingDifferent AnimalsHoning Author:Clive Owen
“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. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.” PeopleTryingEndsTogetherFilmDisciplineTheater Author:Clive Owen
“I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.” ThinkingMadeFilmNightSleepMorningAudienceWeekWake UpTheater Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all” WorldWantKindFilmIdealsTheaterBack And ForthIdeal World Author:Aaron Tveit
“I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I like to do film and theater. And I pride myself on that diversity of being a journeyman actor.” AbleWantedFilmActorsComedyPrideDramaDiversityTheaterContemporary Author:Wendell Pierce
“I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.” BelieveWantedFilmActorsGoalStudentsDirectorsTheaterPhysical BeautyCinematographersFilm Students Author:Pam Grier
“Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running” BigsRunningFilmAppreciateTheaterBudgetsShelter Author:Paul Bettany
“At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.” ThinkingHeartKindDifferentFilmMovingHappenedTalentTelevisionDisciplineHappeningsExcitingTheaterFilm And TelevisionConvergence Author:Colin Callender
“One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.” IfsWantDifferentStatesFilmCareersSuccessfulTelevisionTvsHollywoodTheaterLondonPlaywrightFilm And Television Author:Colin Callender
“You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.” FirstsDoePlayWholeFilmCultureHouseRealizingAmountThirdsTheaterIncrediblesCinemaMassiveWeekendCrapDemographics Author:Dustin Hoffman
“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.” PeopleIfsKnowsShowsBigsFilmCertainDifficultRolesTvsAmountEasierOfficeTheaterBoxesWeekendTv ShowsNobody KnowsBox OfficeMovie Theater Author:Eve Hewson
“Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"” DifferentPlayCharacterFilmOpportunityFunWorstTelevisionTheaterMediumsDifferent Characters Author:Corey Stoll
“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.” KnowsWritingChildrenRealWantedSchoolFilmGrowing UpTeacherGrowingWonderfulMagicDramaTheaterScriptsExpertsMagicianWonderful FriendsHoudini Author:Kristen Connolly
“I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."” ThinkingMenFilmNightNextAudienceGoneForeverTelevisionTheaterRevengeBeing YourselfShyContractsPersonaEphemeralAdoptingFilm And Television Author:Cillian Murphy
“What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.” PeopleKnowsHardFilmActingAudienceSittingTheaterInvisible Author:Cate Blanchett
“I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.” HappensWantedFilmWaitingComedyTheaterMovedPlanningLos AngelesFrustratedSan FranciscoWaiting For Something Author:Amy Seimetz
“The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.” FilmWifeAdventureTheaterFaithfulMistressGreat AdventureFaithful Wife Author:Ingmar Bergman
“I want to diversify a bit. I don't wanna throw myself into another big blockbuster or another big franchise anytime soon. So smaller films, just small little interesting parts, I think I'd even like to play around with some really good supporting roles and then develop into - I don't know just like feel my way into it a bit more. I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingLittlesPlayBigsFilmBitsInterestingRolesTheaterMy WayBlockbusterSupporting Roles Author:Emma Watson
“I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.” FeelsMadeFilmJoySoundAudienceLaughingComedyImagineSweetListeningHorrorDirectorsLaughterSittingTheaterScreamHorror Film Author:Leigh Whannell
“I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.” ThinkingStillsCharacterFilmTheaterQuestioningMovie TheaterQuestioning Why Author:Juno Temple
“Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.” FilmCuttingDirectorsTheaterMy FavoriteVersions Author:Fede Alvarez
“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulFilmWhiteOne ThingMissingStudentsTaughtPaperMusicianTheaterDown AndFilledExperimentsComposerDotsBeautiful MusicRectangles Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans.” ImportantShowsDreamFilmOpportunityMillionsFansCrossesTheaterDollarsMusicalAppealsEngagedLooking GoodDnaMillion DollarsMusical Theater Author:Eric Fellner
“I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.” ThinkingFilmSidesSeeingTheaterCinemaEntering Author:Miguel Gomes
“I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.” KidsFilmFeltTheaterMake SenseEntry Author:Patrick J. Adams
“That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.” HappensFilmImaginationTechnologyTheaterMagician Author:Ian Mckellen
“I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.” WritingPlayFilmBitsConsequenceTheater Author:Lucinda Coxon
“I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.” WayFilmDoorsTvsTheaterMusicalMusical Theater Author:Lara Pulver
“Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.” PeopleWayFeelsKindStillsIdeasPlayFilmActorsFunTheaterAcceptedFilm Actors Author:John C. Reilly
“Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.” PeopleHas BeensCharacterBigsFilmInterestingMoralAudienceEasierTheaterAskingCompassMoral Compass Author:Michael Fassbender
“I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.” YearsFilmStuffRolesHavensMajorsTheater Author:Jacki Weaver
“There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!” PeopleThinkingShouldKindDoeEnoughPlayBigsFilmStageKingsTheaterScreensAll KindsFeaturesLengthDrsLutherBig ScreenDr Martin Luther KingStage Play Author:Ava DuVernay
“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.” KnowsWayStoriesUseHomeFilmArtistValuesFoundBitsProcessInterestingStyleExampleIntellectualTheaterStudiosScreensBackgroundsDefinedJournalBiographiesArtistryAmerican Values Author:Todd Haynes
“I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.” YearsArtDoneSchoolFilmActingNew YorkHigh SchoolTheaterPerformingAnd OffPerforming Arts Author:Carole King
“My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.” FirstsDifferentReasonFilmRolesDirectorsTheaterScriptsLocationCriteria Author:Stephen Lang
“I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.” FilmCareersStageTelevisionTheater Author:Hal Holbrook