Quotes About Theatre Directors

#1. My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

Morena Baccarin

#2. The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

Arundhati Roy

#3. On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

#4. I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

Ian McKellen

#5. The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

Laurence Sterne

#6. I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Lou Doillon

#7. The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Paul Scofield

#8. Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Liya Kebede

#9. There was too much protection in a drone, protection that was also a denial of one's own humanity, very much like the protection offered by a burqa.

David Burr Gerrard

#10. But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Nastassja Kinski

#11. I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way he's going to be in the room when there's a delivery is if there's a pizza involved.

Rita Rudner

#12. Only He who made man makes man happy.

Saint Augustine

#13. Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

Malcolm Turnbull

#14. Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Sean Penn

#16. Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

Princess Diana

#17. I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

James Denton

#18. I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

James Denton

#19. I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

Stephen Daldry

#20. I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

Cate Blanchett

#21. We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

Bobby Robson

#22. Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.

Kaley Cuoco