You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if you make a mistake you just do it over again. You can just do another take.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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