Steven Pasquale Quotes

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order,' where I literally didn't move my neck because I thought you couldn't move your head on camera.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.