Jack Thorne Quotes

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

In my films writers are more important than actors.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

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.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.