Amy Hill Quotes

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I think there is no world without theatre.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

A good story never dies.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.