Ezra Miller Quotes

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

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

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

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

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

To me, singing and acting have always gone hand and hand.

I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.