Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
But theatre is always a difficult experience.
We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
I got into theater at an early age.
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.