“There is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”
Ethel Barrymore

“I left school with no qualifications but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing.”
Dexter Fletcher

“Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.”
Jonathan Demme

“Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing.”
Mark Waters

“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”

Jeremy Strong