Theatre Directors Quotes:

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

- George Ogilvie

topic: Theatre, Musician, Directors, Theatre Directors

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

- James Agate

source: James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”

topic: Player, Theatre, Directors, Theatre Directors

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

- Andrzej Wajda

source: "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

topic: Hands, Theatre, Directors, Theatre Directors

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

- Stephen Daldry

source: "Director Stephen Daldry Talks EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Miniseries". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Theatre, Tests, Theatre Directors, Preview

My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

- Ed Gass-Donnelly

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Jobs, Dad, Teenager, Peeking, Theatre Directors

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

- Morena Baccarin

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Uncles, Theatre, Actors, Theatre Directors

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

- Rebecca Hall

topic: Dad, Father, Ideas, Theatre Directors

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

- Stephen Daldry

source: "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

topic: Couple, Who I Am, Theatre, Theatre Directors