In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.