It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
Theater is hard.
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.