“Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.” WholeTogetherActorsDirectorsMovieFilmmakingWhole Picture Author:Julia Leigh
“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.” ThinkingWayTogetherJobsJoyReadingActorsParticularScriptsWovenJoy Of Reading Author:Jeremy Northam
“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.” PeopleTogetherFilmActorsProcessMovieFilmmaking Author:Olivia Thirlby
“Working with Jean-Claude is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.” RealHappensTogetherUsedGuyFightingActorsFunCasesMinutesFighterCombinationGreat Actors Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsI CanPlayTogetherActorsCan DoHoursPayCharityHorribleBunchTerrifiedBroadwayPlaywrightGet TogetherI Can Do It Author:Scott Raab
“You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."” WantHumansDifferentShowsTogetherGuyActorsHuman BeingsImpossibleTeamNormalTreatsShiningAssAdministrationKicksWorking TogetherGovernorsBuddy Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.” WayTryingKindSometimesTogetherActorsActingJazzConclusionThemeIntroducingBack And ForthImprovisationIncorporating Author:Alan Arkin
“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.” IfsMenTryingYearsLongMadeTwoRealReasonShowsTogetherLastsFilmActorsChallengesCareersOne ThingDrawsVariousFamiliarBoredFallenBoredomCopInherentUniformsSeventeen Author:Benjamin Bratt
“It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.” PlayTogetherActorsLiteratureIssuesProducePressureSurpriseEverydayCastsOpeningWorking TogetherCurtainsUnder Pressure Author:David Talbot
“There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find actors to come and do exactly that thing, then you're not gonna be working with that actor's own set of internal impulses and who they are, so the best work is always a coming together of the actor and the character.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingCharacterTogetherActorsImpulseFixedInternalsThink Of YouBest WorkComing Together Author:Lenny Abrahamson
“I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.” PeopleTryingLittlesDifferentRealCharacterTogetherRememberFilmSpiritActorsAsksPrayerInterestingWatchesBehaviorPerformancesReal LifeWorking TogetherLittle ThingsIdiosyncrasies Author:Wesley Snipes
“Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.” DoneTogetherActorsTvsWorking TogetherBuddy Author:Michael Rooker
“When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.” WantDoeMightTogetherActorsDealsBehindsBrainTalkingPiecesStudiosPuzzlesPackagesBusiness Deals Author:Kevin Hart
“I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.” I CanActionTogetherArtistFightingActorsRolesWorking TogetherMartial ArtsMartial Artist Author:Mark Dacascos
“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingHumansImportantTogetherOrderActorsStrongCompanyCreativeShareAchieveEgoElementsPreparedVery StrongBeing HumanBe CreativeGreat Company Author:George Ogilvie
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.” WayWritingTogetherFilmActorsStuffDirectOrganizationFinanceSubstanceCinemaProseExpress Yourself Author:Werner Herzog
“Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.” PeopleIfsHandsTogetherActorsWalksPleasureResponsibilityProductsResponsibleFinals Author:Justin Kirk
“I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.” TogetherActorsWaveComing TogetherBurn Out Author:Paul Walker