I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second ...
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
(Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater.
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.
I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.
I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
