“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.” IfsThinkingLooksKindDoneMomentsHappensBitsVoiceStylePeriodsCamerasCostumesLet It GoHomeworkAlways ThinkingHairdos Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.” PeriodsTalesCostumesAdultery Author:Mason Cooley
“The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmMovingJoyTakenEffectsPeriodsDetermineBreatheCostumesAnother World Author:Rhys Ifans
“I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.” KnowsWayFeelsKindBookBitsPaintingLike YouPeriodsDramaBoundariesPerformingCostumes Author:Keira Knightley
“I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.” CountryWould BeBeautifulHouseDarknessPiecesTvsPeriodsQuietRadioClockClassicCandleCostumesHaunted HousesClock Ticking Author:Conor McPherson
“It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"” ThinkingFeelsDifferentPlayWould BeWantedSchoolBeautifulLife IsInterestingPiecesPeriodsEasierClothesHigh SchoolExtremesErasSomedayUniformsCostumesLiberatingLife Is LikeDifferent Eras Author:Taylor Schilling
“A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.” IfsWayHas BeensMadeDifferentAgeTodayActorsEnergyProcessPiecesModernPeriodsMirrorsMythRelevantCostumesCastlesBeardStimulusDifferent TimesStimulation Author:Joseph Fiennes
“There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.” PiecesNew YorkPeriodsHollywoodMakeupCostumesOld HollywoodOld New York Author:Jenny Slate
“I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.” ThinkingLooksWould BeInterestRolesPiecesPeriodsDressesFancyFabulousCostumes Author:Ian Astbury