I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.