Cate Blanchett Quotes

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

I feel like with a movie you know your whole journey, and even though little minutiae might change, you're able to get a better idea of where you're going, whereas TV is engaging a different side of your brain.

I prefer film. I think it moves slower, it gives you a chance to kind of get a feel for things. Sometimes TV moves so fast that you don't even remember what you've done.

Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's emotional transference that you don't have in literature that you have in movies. People invest in the person they see on the screen and they can't shift gears.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

I definitely prefer movies over television. I think the process is more fun.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

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

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

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.