“There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.” YearsMeanBigsFilmRealizingForeverTelevisionTheaterImpactScreensEver AfterBig Screen Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.” ThinkingShouldArtPlayRealizingIssuesPercentTheaterProductionsTicketsEndowmentQuota Author:Marsha Norman
“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingYearsSometimesHardFactsFilmAsksRealizingSecretStageTruth IsTwentiesTheaterAsk Me Author:Lucy Walker
“I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.” MenYoungMotherHumanityHouseRealizingGeniusBlessingMusicianTheaterTownsMovedRanYoung ManHotelTouchingAdequateGreat MusicDukesMemphisGreat MusicianOur TownHamptons Author:Charles Lloyd
“The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsStoriesFilmRealizingAudienceSeeingTheaterBunchRemarkableScreamCampfire Author:Wes Craven
“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
“Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.” ImportantAgeRealizingActingTalentMusicianTheaterPassionateAccidentsCeilings Author:Cillian Murphy
“People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.” PeopleRealizingRootsTheaterMusicalMusical Theater Author:Katee Sackhoff
“Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?” PeopleKnowsFirstsWholeTogetherNextRealizingWatchesRight NowSittingTheaterMadWho You AreBrandsBrand NewMovie Theater Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.” MenSocialRealizingBusinessFailingMen And WomenOrganizationTheaterCorporationsProductiveSocial OrganizationProductive Life Author:Lester Bangs
“I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.” MenFactsAbleFilmRealizingTvsLuckyTheaterLove FilmsLucky Man Author:Eric Stoltz
“Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.” PeopleNeedsStillsSeemsTodayRealizingNeededTheaterReactionsOur SocietyObscureParts Of LifeSociety Today Author:Aaron Tveit