When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.
There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.