Orson Welles Quotes

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Most theater tells you what to think.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

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

All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.

My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

It's why we're actors: to be able to tell the stories that really matter.

My experience of performing in Gurgaon has been very satisfying.