Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.
China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
