“In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.” PersonsFilmCoursesHouseLeftMemoriesAttentionClassMorningBecomingDirectorsPaidTheaterNeighborhoodEvery MorningCrashIntrospectiveScreenwritersMovie TheaterKurosawaRenoir Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.” NeedsMadeStatesFilmCompanySituationTelevisionDramaAspectTheaterCurrentsStudiosCinemaJapanExposedExtensionsAdaptationNeed A ChangeBroadcastingGood FilmsAnimeTelevision Drama Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.” DifferentFilmEnjoyDifferencesActingTvsTheaterFormat Author:Carter Jenkins
“Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.” ThinkingWayShouldFilmFoundOpportunityCreativeIssuesTheaterFinishedOnlineShould IDistributionShiftingExamined Life Author:Astra Taylor
“I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.” WellsLittlesDoneFilmStupidTelevisionTheaterBoston Author:David Morse
“There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.” KindDoneFilmActorsTelevisionTheaterTownsChainsFast FoodMovie TheaterFood ChainFilm And Television Author:Kristen Hager
“If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.” IfsFilmTheaterGearsPlaying Around Author:William Monahan
“What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.” GovernmentHappensFilmActorsTelevisionTvsTheaterIsraelDividedFilm And TelevisionFilm Actors Author:Meital Dohan
“I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those films spiked an interest of, "Wow, this is an incredible world, how do you be a part of that?" That definitely helped me through my school years of doing theater.” WorldGivingYearsSchoolFilmInterestBrotherTheaterIncrediblesCreditMy BrotherWowSchool Years Author:Ed Speleers
“When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.” PeopleHappensFilmLevelsBreakTheaterIndependentExtraordinaryMainstreamBreak ThroughIndependent Film Author:Karen Allen
“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."” GivingTryingWellsLooksRealSometimesFilmActorsEssentialsElementsPerformancesTheaterCollaboration Author:Karen Allen
“I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.” PeopleWayI CanDifferentStoriesFilmActorsWatchesExpectationsAspectTheaterCamerasCaughtHelpfulCommentAngleCaught UpNever QuitLightingWrong WayCamera Angles Author:Condola Rashad
“For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.” LongFilmReadingReaderLong TimeTheater Author:Lisa Lucas
“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.” WantKindShowsFilmCoursesHoursImpossibleGrewGrew UpStandardsTheaterItalianMainstreamDvds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.” PeopleThinkingWayFactsFilmNightWonderfulTheaterEvery NightSpontaneousWonderful Things Author:Jodie Foster
“The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.” ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsKindImportantDifferentBigsAbleFilmMovingTvsTheaterMediums Author:Julie Halston
“I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.” IfsKnowsLittlesArtFilmHouseBlackHorrorAreasTheaterCinemaNeighborhoodItalianGhettoHorror FilmKung FuBorderlineFrench MoviesKung Fu Movie Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.” FilmActorsSituationTheaterDependentWhere You Are Author:Susan Sarandon
“I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.” ThinkingMomentsFilmDifferencesLove IsAudienceTheaterMaking LoveMasturbation Author:Susan Sarandon
“Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces. And you can do an amazing job, but if the camera isn't getting it, it doesn't work. And then other times when you feel you really weren't present, and then you see it and somehow it works. So there's a mystery, there's a strange collaboration that takes place with everybody.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesJobsFilmBitsCan DoPiecesSeeingMysteryStrangeLittle BitTheaterCamerasCollaborationBits And PiecesAmazing Job Author:Susan Sarandon
“The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.” MenI CanFilmCan DoFrontsOffersReflectionMen And WomenTheaterMirrorsViewers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.” PlayWantedFilmFormWrittenLateTheaterScoreOperaThirteenLove FilmsFilm Scores Author:Jeff Britting
“The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.” PlayFilmNightOpportunityAudienceExercisePerformancesTheaterEveningControlledAnother Opportunity Author:Julia Stiles
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.” FeelsYearsStillsI CanLastsFilmMovingFiveFourTelevisionTheaterFive YearsPrivileged Author:Cillian Murphy
“The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.” TwoDifferentFilmTheaterMediums Author:Abby Brammell
“I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.” WayArtDifferentFilmEnjoyTheaterStorytellingDifferent Ways Author:Oliver Stone
“I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.” ThinkingKnowsTwoSometimesLightFilmCertainThreeProcessDifficultSoundPoorLevelsWatchesFocusLowsTheaterChainsFilmmakerPrintDisrespectLabsInconsistentShippingDisheartening Author:Oliver Stone
“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
“If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.” IfsGivingArtFilmMissingTelevisionGive MeTheaterPerformingPerforming ArtsGive Me Strength Author:Richard Sammel
“When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.” YearsLooksRealAgeWantedFilmGrowing UpGrowingTheaterTeenagerTeenage Author:Larry Clark
“I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity.” NeedsFilmActorsOpportunityCan DoAbilityTelevisionProveTheaterMusicalBrilliantMusical Theater Author:Luke Evans
“It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.” IfsLooksStillsFilmActorsBitsClearRight NowTheaterMusicalStigmaMusical Theater Author:Luke Evans
“I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.” WayPersonsRememberFilmYoungOrderBlackCommunityCasesTheaterStudiosAccessBrownFedsBusCompton Author:Ava DuVernay
“When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.” WorldSchoolFilmUsedActorsTakenTelevisionTheaterUsed To BeFilm And Television Author:Zachary Quinto
“I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.” ThinkingFilmActorsTelevisionTheaterSellsProducersTicketsNotorietyFilm And Television Author:Zachary Quinto
“I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't do an extensive job preparing us for film and television. It was very much a theater program. That was my first job. It was cool. I was glad it was.” FirstsIdeasRealJobsRememberFilmStuffTelevisionProgramMarkTheaterGladNo IdeaPreparingChildlikeCarnegieFilm And TelevisionCarnegie Mellon Author:Zachary Quinto
“I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].” ThinkingWould BeAbleFilmTheaterClosingMovie TheaterSaddenedAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.” ThinkingYearsLittlesFeelingsFilmUsedSoundLinesSpacePaySawsWallYears AgoWindowTheaterOriginalsI RealizedUsed To BeBotherProjectionSupermarketsMovie TheaterSound Of MusicAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.” ThinkingWayWritingFilmStuffPathFitCallingOkayTheaterUnhappyRelatedRight Way Author:Robert Greene
“I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.” WritingDoeSometimesFilmTheater Author:Tom Stoppard
“It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.” PeopleIfsWayKindFeelingsDreamMightFilmFineTheaterFleetingNot Alone Author:Werner Herzog
“So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've heard that they're going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I've actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.” IfsKnowsLittlesFilmGuyNextFunWatchesSuccessfulHeardSmartTheaterIndependenceSurprisePleasantFourthHawaiiJulyIndependence DayReally SmartSmart GuyPleasant SurprisesFun Movie Author:Brent Spiner
“Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.” FilmWonderfulTheater Author:Liv Ullmann
“I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.” IfsMeanArtTwoWould BeAgeFilmHouseSidesWeekTrumpLuckyTheaterSellsWestLovelyIf I CouldGoing AwayWebsiteTwo WeeksDvdsNetflixWest Side Author:Ava DuVernay
“When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.” ThinkingPlayShowsFilmLawLostRecordsStageStupidTheaterUnionsNarrow-mindedStage Play Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsKindJobsFilmMysteryTheater Author:Anna Kendrick
“Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.” BelieveIdeasDreamFilmI BelieveTalkingCreativeTheaterI Believe InCollaboration Author:Julie Taymor
“I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.” PeopleIdeasPlayFilmAbilityTvsTheaterBelieverFirm Author:Julie Taymor
“The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanReasonDoneLastsAmericaFilmCareersNiceMiddleTelevisionOceanSixEnglandTheaterPreparedSevenRadioSeven YearsReally Nice Author:Rufus Sewell