Rebecca Hall Quotes

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

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

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.

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

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 was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as a kid. It was just so magical that I was like, 'There's something going on back there that I don't know.' But, when I watched theater, it was something that was happening in front of me.

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

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

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I love working in the theater.