This youngest of the arts is also the most heavily burdened with memory. Cinema is a time machine. Movies preserve the past, while... theatres--no matter how devoted to the classics, to old plays--can only "modernize." Movies resurrect the beautiful dead; present, intact, vanished or ruined environments; embody without irony styles and fashions that seem funny today.... Films age (being objects) as no theatre event does (being always new).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical fi...eld of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor... is less dangerous than the dancing master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuou...s use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents,... each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody S...hirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be... accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »