“The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.” ChildrenTheaterOriginalsClubsMiceMickeyMovie Theater Author:Annette Funicello
“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.” WayPlayProblemSeemsUsedTakenRiskStageNew YorkPicksEnglandTheaterOriginalsProductionsUsed To BeJustificationCreamTicketsBroadway Author:Arthur Miller
“Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.” PeopleFirstsRealRunningSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolOrganizationTheaterOriginalsUniversityCastsPerformingVanderbilt Author:Nancy Allen
“The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.” PeopleSometimesHardShowsRunningFilmStuffSawsHugeTheaterOriginalsCompetitionStudiosVersionsFilmmakerReportsEarning Author:Tom Hanks
“I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.” ThinkingFeelsLooksRealCharacterStoriesMovingSoundBuildingSceneAspectTheaterOriginalsArchitectureSensesDialogueDistinctiveAlways ThinkingPlaywriting Author:Adriana Trigiani
“There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.” Has BeensFeltStandardsTheaterOriginalsInstinctKicksKill MeMaking ChangesScreenplaysKeepersScreenwritersHigh Standards Author:Sam Mendes
“I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.” WritingPlayWantedFoundVoiceTheaterOriginalsPlaywright Author:Atom Egoyan
“I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker."” ThinkingWorldWantLittlesWarLightKidsAbleRememberTurnsHouseStarsLosesDarkFantasyThis WorldTheaterOriginalsScreensOpeningReleaseUnclesLittle KidLukeTurn OffLosing Yourself Author:Austin Butler
“I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesFictionElementsTheaterOriginalsScience FictionDistinctionPublishingAdaptationArbitraryVenues Author:Edward Einhorn
“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
“When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.” MadeDramaTheaterOriginalsStrainGreece Author:Howard Rheingold
“At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.” IfsArtFormStudyTalentStyleDevelopmentModelsTheaterOriginalsNobleCopiesRoutineRelativeBalletMisleadInfancyRenounce Author:Jean-Georges Noverre