7 Quotes by Jennifer Tipton
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I’ve often called the lighting for the stage the “music for the eye”, because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.
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I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.
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I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.
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I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it’s too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.
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I call the art of theatre a “dirty art”, since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.
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After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.
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I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.
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