“I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use...” — Julie Taymor Quote

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

I'm developing some high-frame-rate 3-D processes that are going to be, I hope, indistiguishable from reality. This will be quite an unusual cinematic event - you don't just tell an ordinary story, it's more of a first-person experience where the melodrama doesn't get in the way. Being inside the movie rather than looking at the movie.