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Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.


Terry Teachout

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WALTER MURCH When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microsco...
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GARY F EVANS... The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.
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BIANCA JAGGER The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
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HARRY CONNICK, JR. Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philo...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
HENRY ROLLINS Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. ...
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JAMES EARL JONES Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in wh...
HENRY ROLLINS What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, w...
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LARS VON TRIER Puoi levarti anche le calze?" Gli chiedeva lei. "E i calzoni?"
"E tu ti puoi levare i tuoi?" JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech ...
THOMAS MANN The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight...
TAMMY BLANCHARD Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE My big passion is teaching theater, ... I decided I wanted to live in a beautiful area and start a t...
GARY SCHWARTZ There is not a big anti-incumbent movement building out there. This is a snapshot in time that doesn...
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SHAWNEE SMITH Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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MARK WATERS This movement has taken on an anti-monarchy dimension. That's a new component of the whole thing.
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ROLAND BARTHES Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT