The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
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Film is a truly magical medium.
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.