Lee Unkrich Quotes

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

I have a passion to do theater.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

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

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.

Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

I've always wanted to get into theatre.

Being on a show like 'Fear the Walking Dead,' I started to learn more about camera work, learn more about the way the crew operates, and had more of a stronger opinion on how I think a television director can operate in the healthiest way.

It's been so great being on 'American Horror Story' and 'Scream Queens' because there were some days when I didn't work, and I would spend my time shadowing directors.

Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.

I don't miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it's so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything's as it should be.