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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or f...
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it...
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Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
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Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody doe...
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JEFF BRIDGES
ALEXANDER PAYNE Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult...
BETH WILKINSON
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa... AUNJANUE ELLIS Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoi...
ZHANG ZIYI It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a...
AARON TVEIT One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick... NOAH BAUMBACH
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a cam...
ERNEST BORGNINE When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium... ALAN RICKMAN I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason th...
ADAM WINGARD
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on si...
BROOKE NEVIN Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if ther...
DAVID DOBKIN
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of... JOHN BERGER
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation ... JOHN BERGER I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most i...
DARIO ARGENTO Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or i...
ANNABELLA SCIORRA For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium ...
SIMON BAKER
Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they se... RANBIR KAPOOR
The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five... JOEL EDGERTON Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It alwa...
ALFRED MOLINA
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ... D. H. LAWRENCE They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the ...
DAVID R. ELLIS I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing...
DAN FUTTERMAN Think about how uncomfortable it is if you get three or four ant bites. Now think what it would be l...
SUE SMALL
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ... BILLIE HOLIDAY
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. Yo... MIRA SORVINO I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my go...
ERIC WHITACRE
To be or not to be... I think its a trick question. UNKNOWN
Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what y... JAMES BELUSHI
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications... LEE HALL
I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an act... DARREN CRISS
I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy,... ROBERT ENGLUND I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the enti...
SHAWNEE SMITH
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or f... JAMES FRANCO A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act...
PAUL MUNI Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an i...
RANI MUKERJI I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never sh...
TAKESHI KITANO
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Tim... KEVIN BACON I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something mu...
GUY BERRYMAN That would be an interesting movie, it's just not this movie, ... You can't come into a process that...
ED ZWICK
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it... HALLE BERRY I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you'...
BRYAN CLAY
I used to think that the world was doing something to me, that the world owed me something. And that... JOHN LENNON Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 ...
JONAS MEKAS
Space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, t... SCOTT KELLY When you're doing a single-camera show, it's more buying into a level of reality. I think a ...
DARREN STAR
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to sugges... RICHARD DAWKINS me, and I believe everyone in the audience, could not conceive of a sane person doing these things.
STEVE OSBURN I would like this film to be available to everyone, because there's very few of us out there who hav...
ANGELA SHELTON When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that...
DOUG JONES I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a...
EMILE HIRSCH
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ... BILLIE HOLIDAY When Barnes came on the place seemed to lift a little bit. If you're having that kind of effect on p...
TERRY WESTLEY
Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE...
BILL WATTERSON I don't believe the mayor would be that kind of an ingrate or a hypocrite.
JOE BRUNO I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the ...
STEPHEN AMELL It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it ...
DAVID STRATHAIRN I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decid...
KATHERINE RUNDELL
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was v... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewa... SCOTT KELLY If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
MADDIE HASSON
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. FRANK DARABONT
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especial... AARON STANFORD Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt th...
ANNA POPPLEWELL I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi...
ESTHER DYSON
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is... BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or... KIM CATTRALL My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man, ... Now it...
JOE SIMPSON If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the...
ENRICO COLANTONI If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien...
TABITHA SOREN Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.
BENNY GOODMAN I think they've got a lot of A-pluses going for them at this point. In six or seven or eight years, ...
LARRY WHEELER Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're pre...
JEFF VANDERMEER My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is al...
JOHN ABRAHAM
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a... STANLEY KUBRICK
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody doe... KIEFER SUTHERLAND If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE mo...
BRAD DOURIF
The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push t... GARY ROSS I thought I would be a serious actor. But I soon realized that doing comedy gave me what I needed ou...
SHENOAH ALLEN Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about...
LAURA BUSCHE
Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in... ALAN MOORE Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It...
LOUISE FLETCHER The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by t...
BARRY EICHENGREEN I think the effect it would have would be a longer term effect, a more positive effect on other camp...
MATT KELLER It's always been a kind of spur of the moment thing. If you bring it out all the time, it kind of lo...
MIKE MAURER
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's enterta... AARON SORKIN Any kind of disruption or slow movement has a dampening effect on commodities.
DAVID SWENSON
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because eith... A. S. BYATT Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, sme...
BEVERLY ENGEL Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and...
JACK HUSTON This is the first time that all I need to worry about is showing up on set and doing the best I can ...
KIRBY HEYBORNE
Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you c... PHIL MICKELSON [Gilliam] has a very free imagination. There's nothing you feel you can't do as an actor. The audien...
JEFF BRIDGES
We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks, ... We're excited about playi... 
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