Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

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

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

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.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.