Quotes About Art

I was born to be on the stage.

I love the stage.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I have never danced in any film of mine, barring some stage shows.

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I'd like to take up K. Balachander's films and do that.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

Shows are my saving grace. In between actual jobs, the only thing that keeps me sane is the knowledge that I can go up on stages.

One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

It isn't easy to create a dance show, and it's different from choreographing for films... You need a lot of stamina and practice.