#eater

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#experience #feel #given #gravity #huge

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #circle #distance #earth #future

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#anything #both #character #cinema #different

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#death #middle-class #night #out #packaged

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#even #heavy #ideas #movies #plot

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#having #i #into #now #right

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#enough #grinding #guts #i #knit

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american dream #dream #foundation #good

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#expensive #get #getting #into #lot