Mike D Quotes

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

A seven-minute take is almost like theater.