You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.