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Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.
Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.
A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
The Smith Center is a theater where you want to keep the lights on. The acoustics are amazing, and this is a stage that was built for sound.
People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.
It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.
I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
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.
When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off.