Vanessa Kirby Quotes

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I've always wanted to work with the best directors. Directors lead you to the best material and thus the best actors.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

I think it's dependent on where life takes me. For sure, I absolutely adore acting. It has been my passion from a very young age. But at the same time I am very intrigued by the camera, and also very intrigued by props.

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.

Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be dangerous.

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.