Pastoral Resources

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

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.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.