Zeljko Ivanek Quotes

When you’re guest-starring, it’s very nice, but you’re there very briefly, and it’s right there in the name: You’re a guest. It’s very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

What I always loved about theater is that that’s an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you’re in front of an audience, you really own it.

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

I had such an amazing experience on ‘The Pillowman’ that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

Both ‘Oz’ and ‘Homicide,’ they’re critically admired, so it’s not like they’re really neglected, but I wish they’d found bigger audiences.

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn’t expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it’s all put together, what will the effect be.

It’s very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It’s not just because they are evil, but because that’s how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It’s always interesting figuring out how that happens.