Theater Management Quotes

My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them.

After college, I was an intern at the New York Theater Workshop. In the mornings, I would build sets and hang lights, and in the afternoon, I would be the reader for auditions.

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.