Bill Hader Quotes

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.