Quotes About Art

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

You can only do so much theatre.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

Theatre just fills me up so much.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

Theatre was always my passion.

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.