Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
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.
People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.