John Tiffany Quotes

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.

Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.

I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have happened.

I love to perform. I love live shows.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.

Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both.

I like all kinds of shows. The small shows are a totally different vibe. I don't care how many people are there as long as they're into it.