“I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.” BigsFilmYoungHateActorsStepsRolesMiddleArmyThrustYoung ActorsSmall Steps Author:Paddy Considine
“When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.” IfsWantNeedsAbleFilmActorsRealizingHappenedConversationCasts Author:Paddy Considine
“Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar” IfsFilmActorsPhenomenonAwardsOscarsDrsJurySelectedBaba Author:Ram Gopal Varma
“A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.” ThinkingShouldSchoolFilmActorsDramaDirectorsFocusedVisuals Author:Eva Green
“One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.” FilmActorsSecretModelsCamerasIntimacyViewersLensesTransmitGreat FilmFilm Actors Author:Mary Harron
“What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingKindFilmActorsDirectorsProtectPagesFlawsGood PeopleProtect Yourself Author:George Clooney
“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
“As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.” NeedsMaySeemsFilmNextActorsRolesMediaRelationTheaterPhotographCampaignsAngleExposurePromotingFlatteringPublic RelationsFilm Set Author:Carson Grant
“Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.” NeedsBelieveStoriesActionFilmPassionActorsLanguageI BelieveProcessVoiceFictionDangerAmountDramaDirectorsPagesProducersNarrativeBudgetsIntimateScreenwritingParametersAction FilmsAlways Working Author:Chiara Barzini
“There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.” WantFilmActorsStuffQualityTelevisionDemandConcernedInterfereHigh QualityGood QualityQuality Work Author:Wesley Snipes
“To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.” Has BeensFilmActorsCastsScreenplays Author:Dito Montiel
“I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much - I believe his actors' work. I have a feeling that many actors in his films are similar to their characters, and I like that.” PeopleBelieveReasonCharacterFeelingsFilmActorsI BelieveReason WhyWoodyWoody Allen Film Author:Dito Montiel
“I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.” PeopleKnowsSchoolFilmActorsFineVersionsGreat Actors Author:Dito Montiel
“If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.” IfsLittlesCharacterHelpingFilmActorsInterestingSpecialPaidSomething SpecialNashville Author:Dito Montiel
“Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.” IfsMadeSaidStillsCharacterFilmFacesActorsStarsTheaterMade ItOne TimeCharacter ActorsFilm Stars Author:Denis Leary
“When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.” KnowsMeanImportantUseEyeFilmActorsHugeShootingFeaturesFilmmakerPerformersCastingGreat Actors Author:Peter Jackson
“I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.” WayLightFilmActorsProcessDirectorsPhotographyExcitingProductionsEvolveDesignerDiscoveringDiscovering Things Author:Peter Jackson
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.” ReasonFilmYoungArtistActorsSidesBalanceInvolvedFunctionFlipYoung Actors Author:James Franco
“When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.” KnowsShouldFilmActorsVoiceMy OwnDecisionCreativeProjectsArtisticJust Listen Author:James Franco
“I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.” WantDoeSaidBigsRememberFilmGuyActorsVoiceFiveSeeingSixScreensMumRobinsBig ScreenGeniesVoice Over Author:Darren Criss
“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” ThinkingHumansWantedSchoolFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureDramaSpeechFantasticOxfordFilm SetBest EducationFantastic Life Author:Rosamund Pike
“I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.” ThinkingImportantFilmActorsWatchesImportant ThingsMovie Author:Clive Owen
“I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.” ThinkingShouldPlayFilmActorsTheaterBeltsAuditoriums Author:Clive Owen
“I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.” StoriesFilmActorsTelling StoriesDays Off Author:T. J. Thyne
“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsEndsWould BeFilmTurnsActorsKnowingWonderfulParticularSkillsProjectsScriptsLuxuryTomsCruiseGreat Film Author:Jonny Lee Miller
“When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.” MadeTwoIdeasHardWould BeWantedFilmActorsAudienceTeamInternationalFatsNo Idea Author:John Woo
“A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.” PeopleArtFilmActorsRealizingActingPerformingMartial ArtsArt Films Author:Donnie Yen
“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.” IfsFilmFormFightingActorsWalksModernBowsCopExpress YourselfSpineStraight Up Author:Donnie Yen
“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.” WritingLongFilmFallThreeActorsStuffViewsMillionsVideoSecondsBowlsToiletsKittenGood ActorsShort Films Author:Ben Schwartz
“There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.” FilmActorsNamesShareParticularTraditionVery GoodPercentagesKevinBeattyDirecting Film Author:Steven Van Zandt
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.” YearsRememberFilmFacesActorsGivenStarsKnownDestinySawsEuropeWindowPerformancesSouthHumanitarianPassingPassingsDestroyedShirtsConfusedRestaurantsSpainT ShirtDeanSwedenMoscowDiscoGreat FilmGreat PerformanceBogartGreat Humanitarian Author:Dennis Hopper
“I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.” ThinkingTryingStillsCharacterFilmActorsStageTelevisionTaughtTheatreFilm And TelevisionStage Actors Author:Tony Shalhoub
“I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.” ThinkingNeedsGivingFilmActorsSuccessfulIndustryAgreeBeing SuccessfulAppreciatedGood ActorsUnderrated Author:Shahid Kapoor
“Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.” PeopleFilmYoungActorsViewsActingQualityWatchesMessagesRubiesGood Acting Author:Brian J. White
“The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.” FirstsHardBigsFilmActorsExampleHumilityTaughtHard WorkStudiosBudgetsMacsAngela Author:Brian J. White
“I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.” ChildrenStillsHomeFilmActorsPennsylvaniaChild ActorsIndie Films Author:Charlie McDermott
“I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.” ThinkingInspirationActionFilmActorsGrowing UpGrowingTvsMomHorrorMy MomHorror FilmAction Films Author:Rick Gonzalez
“It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.” PeopleWorldTryingFilmActorsEasyForgetIndustrySavingRecognitionObsessedSave The WorldFilm Industry Author:Charlie Cox
“For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.” LooksHeartStillsSoulCharacterFilmActorsGamesPerformancesMethodFantasticHeart And SoulPortraying Author:Andy Serkis
“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.” LongMomentsFilmActorsChallengesEmotionPeriodsTricksLong Periods Of TimeFilm Actors Author:Aaron Stanford
“I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.” FilmActorsGenerationsTvsGrewGrew UpWatching Tv Author:Lennie James
“In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.” WayLittlesFilmActorsLinesPerfectBlowLittle Things Author:Ali MacGraw
“I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantHardFilmActorsWatchesMillionsFiveDependsOfficeBoxesRelatedBox OfficeMore The MerrierBox Office Success Author:Rani Mukerji
“Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.” ImportantFilmActorsResponsibilityWatchesAudienceAliveFansJudgingCarefulGladImmenseSigning Author:Rani Mukerji
“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.” ImportantFilmActorsFeltCausesFunctionSignificantThings To DoMovie LoveGrandioseSignificant Things Author:Charlie Hunnam
“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.” KindFilmCertainActorsIllusion Author:Stephen Fry
“When you meet people that you know from other films - as often happens to me, and as tends to happens to you when you're an actor, you constantly meet people that you've seen in other films. But when it's people who've kind of had a seismic effect on your life, it's quite extraordinary.” PeopleKnowsKindHappensFilmActorsEffectsExtraordinary Author:Simon Pegg