“I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor - somebody else organized what I'm going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I'm here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.” ThinkingRealSeemsWantedActorsEmotionMarkOrganizedVague Author:Paul Bettany
“Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.” SelfStoriesWantedActorsWatchesVainServingStorytellerBullyObnoxiousSelf Serving Author:Paul Bettany
“I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.” FirstsDoeLightWantedRememberAsksFocusDirectorsAskingCamerasErrorsLensesMarginsAsking QuestionsPlaygrounds Author:Paul Bettany
“I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.” WayWritingStoriesKidsWantedSongEnjoyFundamentalsTelling Stories Author:Paul Bettany
“I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.” KnowsStoriesWantedActorsDirectors Author:Paul Bettany
