My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
You can't force an audience to see something they don't want to see, no matter what it is.
All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.