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.
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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 is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.