I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.
I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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.
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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.