“I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.”

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

Any show that’s bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that’s the only way that theater will continue to grow.

The theater and film, they’re like two completely different mediums.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it’s been an amazing learning curve.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.

We’ll meet at the theater tonight. I’ll hold your seat ’til you get there. Once you get there; you’re on your own.