“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksArtFilmProcessWatchesElementsShotsMusicalRhythmGreat FilmEdited Author:Frank Ocean
“A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.” IdeasFilmHeavenFeltBitsRecordsSingingMusicalSingersHated Author:Billie Piper
“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".” ThinkingKnowsFirstsPlayWholeStoriesFilmSongTeacherDramaMusicalJeansBeltsMamaFootloose Author:Miles Teller
“If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.” IfsThinkingFilmMusical Author:Seth MacFarlane
“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!” IfsThinkingWould BeFilmMissingTvsSingingIdealsDancingMusicalCastsSinging And Dancing Author:Laura Osnes
“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.” FirstsCharacterFilmKeysGayMusicalCastsPopsBritishManagersFixedDramaticComponentsCliffsHarveyBongos Author:Peter York
“Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.” FilmMusicalCoreMusical Experience Author:Isabelle Huppert
“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayTryingCharacterJobsFilmActorsAbilityFitTheaterMusicalDefinitionsAccomplishedFrameworkMusical Theater Author:Anton Yelchin
“I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.” ThinkingFilmPiecesMusic IsMusicalTheatreEngines Author:John Kander