The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater bef...
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
