Dries van Noten Quotes

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show.