I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.