“I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free. And I don't see movies 'cause they're trash, and they got nothin' but naked people in 'em! And I don't read books, 'cause if they're any good, they're gonna make 'em into a miniseries.”
Shirley MacLaine - Ouiser Boudreaux

“- Carl Denham: I keep telling you, Jack, there's no money in theater. That's why you should stick with film.
- Jack Driscoll: No Carl, it's not about the money. I love theater.
- Carl Denham: No you don't. If you really loved it, you would've jumped.”

Jack Black - Carl Denham
Adrien Brody - Jack Driscoll

“In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.”
Mark Waters

“Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing.”
Mark Waters

“The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.”
John Patrick Shanley