Quotes About Perspective

The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and I remember feeling like I was almost cheating when I would put the camera so close to somebody's face when I was filming them.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.