Annie Baker Quotes

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.

There must be a level of skill, but that is not necessarily why people watch my videos.

If the titles are treated in a straightforward way, nobody is really interested. The theory is that in those two or three minutes, you can set the tone for the films, so that when the story begins the audience hits the ground running.

If I am not excited about a project, then how do I expect my audience to watch my film? Give me good roles, and I will be working round the clock.

There's only so much you can say to any group of players before they stop listening.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.

If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda.

I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men.

In a media landscape that has grown in unimaginable ways, there are more projects that have come along now than ever. While the number of projects has grown, many players are vying for that audience.

The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult.

People say women's wrestling sucks and nobody wants to see it, but every time there are storylines and they invest in the women, people react and love it.

It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.

It's always useful to know that people are emotionally invested in a series because it means that you can take them down a certain road, and they should be interested.

We never want the audience to get bored.

The last thing you want is for people not to care about what you have to say.