In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.