Cameron Britton Quotes

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

Theater is a gamble and a tough road.

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

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

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.