Clive Barker Quotes

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.

I like the fact that in the theatre nothing is ever finished because you're going to do it all over again tomorrow, whereas in telly once it's wrapped and in the can, that's it.

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.