Adam Driver Quotes

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

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

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.