#theater

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#far #film #poetry #superior #theater

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#abstract #best #does #i #king

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly. ↗

— Michael Musto

#art #art form #cover #enough #every

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#cast #casts #commission #committee #disarmament

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do. ↗

— Jerry Orbach

#anything #ever #five #had #hit

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#acting #against #also #audience #back

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#control #evening #film #go #performance

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#adrenaline #anything #film #i #i can

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#i #like #new #new york #really

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#done #entire #felt #got #hadn