Theatrical Design Quotes

At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a show; I don't have a brain expansive enough to see the whole picture, in a way that would behoove anyone.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

I am not indulgent. I think constructing a scene elaborately - with art, costume, and visual drama - is not indulgence. Other people should do it, too.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.