If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
I would not score very highly on religious value.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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