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“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.”

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Author:George Hickenlooper

“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.”

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Author:Don DeLillo

“The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.”

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Author:Richard Cabral

“I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.”

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Author:Richard Selzer

“When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.”

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Author:Asghar Farhadi

“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

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Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”

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Author:George Hickenlooper