Quotes About Art

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every night. Take theater, opera; there's always opera happening every night.

I would love to do some theater.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

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.

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

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

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

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.