Michael Lomenda Quotes

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

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.

I love working in the theater.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart.

I became a set designer for opera.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

I trained in the theatre.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.