“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.” KnowsFirstsEndsEnoughCharacterMightLastsFilmCasesPiecesMaterialsSceneFlowScriptsExtremes Author:Jean Stapleton
“I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.” FilmBitsPiecesClassic Author:Jim Varney
“I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.” EndsFilmPiecesSadnessMoonHolesGreat ThingsEpicNew Moon Author:Chris Weitz
“It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.” WayFeelsMadeWantedFilmPiecesCriticismAbsolutesHatedOver ItCrapDisingenuousGetting Over It Author:Stephen Daldry
“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.” NeedsWritingArtFilmFormPiecesRocksPaintingPaperPicksSticksPensPencilsSculptureChalk Author:Forest Whitaker
“I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.” CountryAgeFilmCertainBornPiecesMarchRomeStrandsFilm History Author:Giovanna Cau
“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.” FilmFormActorsBornRoomsPiecesPaperThirdsCamerasFinalsFinishedEditing Author:Robert Bresson
“For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksFilmGonePiecesShotsLaysFingersFinalsPhotographLoad Author:Catherine Yass
“One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.” FeelsFilmFormFictionPiecesWallBabyBecomingAdultsScience FictionFatsShakesChairsFedsLazinessFloatingPoignantPortrayalPixarCusp Author:Nick Offerman
“I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.” IfsThinkingWantHas BeensArtDoneFilmTakenPiecesIncrediblesBrilliantCraftsSuperheroCaptivatedEscapists Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.” IfsHas BeensFilmChoicesPiecesTheatre Author:Darren Boyd
“I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.” ThinkingKindRealFilmPiecesTelevisionPerformancesDialogueEnjoyedLiterary Works Author:Peter Weir
“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