I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.
My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.
I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
