But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.
My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.
When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.
I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book. . . "
I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
The theater was my mother and my father.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
I love working in the theater.
Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.
There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.