Top 1200 Theatre Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'
It is strange, but directors have always shown more confidence in my abilities than I've in myself.
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.
It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.
In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.
Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
There is a dearth of senior artistes in Kollywood and it is up to the directors to utilise my potential and experience.
I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.
I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.
I grew up in a household that was very friendly towards the theatre and acting.
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier
Theatre is home - I grew up doing it - and that is never going to change.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
As I've always been open to learning, directors have helped me with the nuances of acting.
The idea of audiences becoming part of the show is, I think, where theatre is going.
When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'
There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
I studied in Glasgow and, when I was young, I spent four years solely in theatre.
I first started doing theatre, as my sister did it, so I wanted to do the same.
I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.
I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.
Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.
Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
Delhi is where I began practising theatre, it is always special to perform in the capital.
Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.
People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.
Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.
The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.
I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
