“My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.” FilmTelevisionInvolvedMy FamilyTheatre Author:Missi Pyle
“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.” IfsWantDonePlayFilmMonthsRight NowSixMy FamilyGoing AwayBroadwaySix MonthsWant To Go Away Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.” MomentsKidsFilmMy FamilyBiggerSubstitutesLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyI Love My KidsLove My Kids Author:Tom Hanks
“I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.” FilmGrowsGrowing UpMy Family Author:J. C. Chandor
“I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.” PeopleFeelsMadeDoneTogetherFilmCareersCuttingMy FamilyProductionsListsDesignerEncountersCarterCinematographersSchindlerSchindler's ListClose Encounters Author:Steven Spielberg
“My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.” FilmBalanceMy FamilyImportanceStrikesParamount Author:Abhishek Bachchan
“I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.” ThinkingWellsBookHomeTogetherFilmFatherVisionLordSawsMy FamilyOriginalsRingsMy SisterPeterImpressedUnclesAuntLord Of The Ring Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.” ShouldKindLittlesPlayWould BeFilmActorsFunMy FamilyMovedAgencyGreat ActorsAtlantaGreat Film Author:Jacob Latimore
“I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.” FilmActorsNew YorkMy FamilyDancerMakersUnclesGrandparentPhiladelphiaFlamencoGreat Grandparents Author:Aubrey Plaza
“I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!” KindLittlesHas BeensEnoughWholeFilmChallengesInterestingSupportTakenWrittenMy FamilyWoodsTheatreBlessSomething InterestingChoppingChopping Wood Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.” WritingFilmFieldsMy FamilyCinemaEssaysInternships Author:Thomas Bidegain
“Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.” PeopleWayArtFilmStuffTelevisionInspireMy FriendsMy FamilyMeetingsInspiredMeeting New PeopleFilm And TelevisionVery Inspired Author:Jessica McNamee
“I did a film [about a con-artist mom and son] called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's gonna hire me for their [big-budget] romantic comedy, so it's up to me to look out for great indie comedies and show people a different side of myself - even if it's for three people outside of my family.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentShowsBigsFilmArtistThreeSidesComedySonMomMy FamilyBudgetsDifferent SidesCon Artist Author:Milla Jovovich
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.” IfsKnowsKindBigsWould BeFilmFeltWorryDirectMy FamilyStudiosSecureHopefullyIf I Could Author:Dave Bautista
“A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"” MomentsStoriesLastsFilmNextAsksOpportunityOur LivesOrdinaryMy FamilyExtraordinaryScaredGoodbyeLast TimeNext TimeEnlighteningSaying GoodbyeOrdinary MomentsExtraordinary Moments Author:Tom Hanks
“Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were starting to change. We screened the film all over the world - in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities - and people across the board said, "That's my family."” PeopleWorldRealFilmBlackCommunityAttitudeStruggleMy FamilyGreekLatinoReal Women Author:America Ferrera
“I have different interests, and what happens with making a film is that you're going to live with it for a long time, so it better be something that has some staying power. I'm usually inspired by - it could be anything. In one instance, one of the things I was inspired by was something that was happening in my family - the drama that happens in a family, or an unsolvable crime, like Senorita Extraviada.” LongDifferentFilmInterestCrimeDramaMy FamilyInspired Author:Lourdes Portillo
“I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV and film now. That's my homework. Like I said, my Netflix. I've watched Aliens a couple times this week, Dawn Of The Dead. And that's what's really cool too. It's nostalgia, because I saw these shows, these movies, a lot of them, when I was a kid, and they're different now when you watch them. I'm like, "Wow, I can't believe my family let me watch that," and "I must have missed that the first time around."” BelieveDifferentKidsFilmWeekCoupleFirst TimeMy FamilyLet MeNostalgiaAliensReally CoolHomework Author:Danny Pudi
“Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal.” MomentsFilmAudienceLaughingCryMy FamilyRight Moment Author:Amma Asante
“I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers, they're both artists and actors; and their work and the way they see the world inspires me. We've been making films together since we were kids, in our backyard.” WorldKidsTogetherFilmArtistInspireBrotherMy FamilyYounger Brother Author:Tatiana Maslany
“It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.” DifferentSometimesFilmFightingMy OwnScenePicksMy FamilyCamerasWestEastChairsJackie Author:Jackie Chan