What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
Movies cater to what the audiences want.
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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