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KELLY JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON![]()
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON![]()
This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of ...
VIGGO MORTENSEN There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No...
RIZ AHMED I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac...
RUTINA WESLEY I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl...
EDDIE MARSAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON![]()
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM![]()
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I&#...
DAVID LYONS![]()
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeli...
GARTH BROOKS![]()
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no...
ZAKK WYLDE All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo...
PAUL GREENGRASS![]()
My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp...
J.K. ROWLING![]()
I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.
THE SCRIPT Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a da...
THE SCRIPT They're kicking us out saying it's time to close
We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c...
THE SCRIPT![]()
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT![]()
I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was ...
VIGGO MORTENSEN If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where t...
FELICITY JONES With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need t...
MAGGIE CAREY![]()
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think di...
BILL PLYMPTON I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO![]()
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just...
GAYLE FORMAN![]()
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what yo...
VICTORIA LEGRAND![]()
Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune ...
T. J. THYNE He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes i...
RICKY VAN VEEN![]()
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and other...
GUS VAN SANT And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR Now, there doesn't have to necessarily be a white man in the lead role. That's the way forwa...
ALI FAZAL Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which i...
LUCAS NEFF![]()
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT BROOKS![]()
Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and...
RANDEEP HOODA When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s...
BILL SKARSGARD![]()
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If yo...
AYELET ZURER![]()
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have ...
CHARLES DURNING In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as poss...
DOUGRAY SCOTT Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apar...
MARTIN CLUNES![]()
To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it&...
DALLAS ROBERTS![]()
Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a lit...
DAVID CASSIDY I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illu...
CHRIS RIDDELL I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to ...
JILL DAVIS![]()
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it ...
CHARLIE PIERCE![]()
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be troubl...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I gue...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and ...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels ha...
JESSICA MAUBOY I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in m...
ELIJAH KELLEY![]()
I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't...
WONG KAR-WAI 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to...
HANNAH MURRAY![]()
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a...
MARIO ANDRETTI It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.&#...
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR![]()
When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein...
SEAN BEAN That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down...
TAHJ MOWRY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m...
BOB MARLEY Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th...
CRAIG ROBINSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would ...
JAKE JOHNSON In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japa...
FRANK MILLER It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY![]()
I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's b...
CARLA GUGINO![]()
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors...
RYAN GOSLING![]()
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there...
ALBERT FINNEY![]()
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh...
ANITA SHREVE![]()
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to wor...
DAVID OYELOWO![]()
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
ELAINE DUNDY![]()
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. ...
BRIAN P. CLEARY![]()
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't...
DAVID R. ELLIS White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense t...
GRACIE ALLEN I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO![]()
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smith...
MICHAEL JAI WHITE![]()
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you&...
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character...
MARK HAMILL![]()
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'...
CLIVE OWEN![]()
I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone ...
PAIGE VANZANT There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl charac...
EMILY BROWNING![]()
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that pa...
CORY DOCTOROW With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE![]()
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, becaus...
BRECKIN MEYER People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. W...
MELANIE GRIFFITH![]()
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF![]()
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, ...
MAISIE WILLIAMS
KELLY JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of ... VIGGO MORTENSEN There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No...
RIZ AHMED I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac...
RUTINA WESLEY I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl...
EDDIE MARSAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author... STEPHEN SONDHEIM
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I&#... DAVID LYONS
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeli... GARTH BROOKS
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no...
ZAKK WYLDE All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo...
PAUL GREENGRASS
My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp... J.K. ROWLING
I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.
THE SCRIPT Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a da...
THE SCRIPT They're kicking us out saying it's time to close
We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c...
THE SCRIPT
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was ... VIGGO MORTENSEN If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where t...
FELICITY JONES With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need t...
MAGGIE CAREY
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think di... BILL PLYMPTON I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just... GAYLE FORMAN
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what yo... VICTORIA LEGRAND
Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune ...
T. J. THYNE He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes i...
RICKY VAN VEEN
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and other... GUS VAN SANT And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR Now, there doesn't have to necessarily be a white man in the lead role. That's the way forwa...
ALI FAZAL Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which i...
LUCAS NEFF
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i... ALBERT BROOKS
Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and... RANDEEP HOODA When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s...
BILL SKARSGARD
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If yo... AYELET ZURER
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ... GARY SHTEYNGART You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have ...
CHARLES DURNING In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as poss...
DOUGRAY SCOTT Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apar...
MARTIN CLUNES
To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it&... DALLAS ROBERTS
Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a lit... DAVID CASSIDY I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illu...
CHRIS RIDDELL I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to ...
JILL DAVIS
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it ... CHARLIE PIERCE
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be troubl... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I gue...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and ...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels ha...
JESSICA MAUBOY I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in m...
ELIJAH KELLEY
I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't... WONG KAR-WAI 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to...
HANNAH MURRAY
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL
There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a... MARIO ANDRETTI It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.&#...
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR
When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein... SEAN BEAN That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down...
TAHJ MOWRY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m... BOB MARLEY Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th...
CRAIG ROBINSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would ...
JAKE JOHNSON In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japa...
FRANK MILLER It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY
I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's b...
CARLA GUGINO
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors... RYAN GOSLING
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there... ALBERT FINNEY
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh...
ANITA SHREVE
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to wor... DAVID OYELOWO
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ELAINE DUNDY
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. ... BRIAN P. CLEARY
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't...
DAVID R. ELLIS White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense t...
GRACIE ALLEN I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smith... MICHAEL JAI WHITE
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you&... SILAS WEIR MITCHELL I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character...
MARK HAMILL
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'... CLIVE OWEN
I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone ... PAIGE VANZANT There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl charac...
EMILY BROWNING
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that pa... CORY DOCTOROW With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, becaus...
BRECKIN MEYER People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. W...
MELANIE GRIFFITH
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... MOS DEF
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, ... MAISIE WILLIAMS
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect... 
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the ... 
The most profound statements are often said in silence. 
I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy. 
And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same. 
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... 
I like people-watching and fading into crowds. 