Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Sigmund Freud
Dag Hammarskjold
Charlotte Whitton
John Ruskin
Denis Diderot
William Cullen Bryant
All authors
Today's birthdays
1734 - Daniel Boone
1755 - Marie Antoinette
1951 - Thomas Mallon
1950 - Graeme Murphy
1980 - Karamo Brown
1773 - Stephen Grellet
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Architect
Psychologist
Mathematician
Designer
Chef
Celebrity
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Favorite authors
Thomas Kail Quotes
Thomas Kail Quotes
Thomas Kail
American
Director
Born:
Jan 20
,
1978
About
Director
Every
People
Time
You
Related authors:
David Lynch
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Spike Lee
Steven Spielberg
Tim Burton
Woody Allen
I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'
Thomas Kail
People
Word
Musical
Say
Broadway
Musical Theater
Possibilities
Something
Term
Look
Make
Proud
Want
Theater
Connotation
I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. It might be a Swiss army knife, a quart of milk and a ruler. That might be all I can bring to it, but that's what I have.
Thomas Kail
Army
Job
Ruler
Out
Take
Open
Knife
Know
Quart
Go
Up
Little
Might
Each
Briefcase
Swiss
Milk
Things
Bring
I grew up with two sisters, and we owned three movies: 'Grease,' 'It's a Wonderful Life,' and 'Grease 2.' And you can only watch 'Wonderful Life' in the last half of the year. So I don't remember a time when I didn't know 'Grease.'
Thomas Kail
Life
Time
You
Wonderful
Remember
Three
Half
Year
Only
Know
Up
Sisters
Wonderful Life
Owned
Grew
Movies
Watch
Last
Grease
Two
Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.
Thomas Kail
People
One Of The Things
About
Tend
Toward
Stories
Story
Theater
Migrate
Working
Whose
Things
Fundamentally
The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.
Thomas Kail
Day
You
Beauty
Difficult
Every
Something
Maker
Making
Go
Theater
Really
Skill
Next
Show
Actor
Challenged
Nightly
As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn't want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games.
Thomas Kail
Picture
Painting
Kid
TV
Jon
Idea
Want
Wanted
Loved
Games
Who
Radio
Miller
One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.
Thomas Kail
Work
You
Director
Together
Challenges
Wonderful
Rare
Partner
Peers
Way
Pretty
Write
Writers
Know
Another
Get
Often
Being
Your
Many
Actor
Designers
Chance
I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre - and a place like 'Powerhouse' - is that who you are is informing your work. There's actually no separation from that.
Thomas Kail
Work
Beautiful
You
Theatre
Separation
Think
About
Like
Powerhouse
Beautiful Things
Place
Informing
Your
Who
Actually
Things
Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.
Thomas Kail
Time
Me
Humanity
Important
Every
Every Time
More
Over
Talent
Make
Go
Than
Choice
I think that the nature of being a human being and someone who works in the creative arts is that you hear the word 'no' a hundred times before you hear the word 'yes.'
Thomas Kail
Nature
You
Creative
Human Being
Word
Before
Think
Hundred
Hundred Times
I Think
Someone
Hear
Yes
Times
Human
Arts
Being
Who
Works
No more Thomas Kail quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Thomas Kail.
David Lynch
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Spike Lee