The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
Film and television are just different. Film is cool because its a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so its constantly a mystery as to what youre going to be doing.
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.
When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but. . . where are the visionaries?
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.
I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and believe the stories. This is a broad audience and deserves to be on broadcast TV.
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.
Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.
Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.
What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.
