“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.” StillsDifferentAbleFilmGivenCreativeTelevisionLuckyAreasTheatreBe Creative Author:Richard O'Brien
“I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.” LooksHas BeensPlayFilmFallThreeGivenCoupleDesksGoats Author:Mercedes Ruehl
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.” DoneKidsFilmYoungFatherGivenBlackCareersWatchesHavensSonTypeConceptsPartnershipSuperheroFather SonFather And Son Author:Blair Underwood
“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.” ThinkingFirstsFilmNextGivenWatchesSceneMovedEtc Author:Zhang Ziyi
“I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.” SometimesMatterFilmGivenReviewsCredence Author:Irvin Kershner
“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.” IfsYearsHas BeensMadeBookMatterBigsFilmGivenFansSubjectsSourceHollywoodBeing TrueBudgetsTreatmentSubject MatterLoatheIfs AndHollywood Films Author:Richard Laymon
“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.” MindKindFilmGivenCenturyPeriodsHorrorHollywoodDistanceSettingSettingsTypical19th Century1930s Author:Andrew Tudor
“Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsStoriesFilmActorsGivenPerformancesOwnership Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.” GivingFirstsFilmUsedGivenTermQualityTechnologyIndependentExtraordinaryAccessUsed To BeExpensesFilmmakingNew Technology Author:Kathleen Turner
“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
“Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.” WayDifferentFilmGivenPerspectiveApproachTheaterDifferent Perspective Author:Jake Gyllenhaal