The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
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.
The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.
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.
I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.
I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.