“You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.” EndsCharacterStoriesFilmStuffRealizingMiddlePeriodsMajorsBeginnings And Endings Author:Feist
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasHardFilmActingHard WorkPeriodsClothesMusic IsArmyDressesCraftsFirst LoveMusic LoveMoscowI Love MusicLove FilmsNapoleonic Author:Ian Astbury
“In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.” PlayCharacterFilmMovingTvsPeriodsRehearsalGreat Film Author:James Wolk
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.” ThinkingMindMeanCountryMatterFilmCitiesTroubleDivineParticularPeriodsSpokesDragOnly Time Author:Keith Carradine
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.” PeopleKnowsPlayDreamFilmRolesPeriodsHappeningsIntenseDramaticStakesStressedStressed Out Author:Clea DuVall
“I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.” ThinkingTwoBigsJobsFilmYoungTurnsStarsDifferencesActingTroubleDyingPeriodsHollywoodPaintPhotographDeanBanned Author:Dennis Hopper
“The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.” CharacterFilmCan DoGonePeriodsIndependentYou Can Do ItFormatIndependent Film Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“John Logan is maybe the No. 1 screenwriter in the world today, not to mention that he won a Tony for Best Play for Red. So he may just be the best writer period right now. He wrote The Aviator, and I was in New York doing a play, and he asked if they would see me for the film, just meet with me. 'Cause that's what Martin Scorsese does.” IfsWorldMayDoePlayTodayFilmCausesNew YorkPeriodsRight NowRedBeing The BestWorld TodayScreenwritersAviatorScorsese Author:Brent Spiner
“Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsLongFilmUsedFivePeriodsHarry PotterPottersExhausting Author:John Hurt
“On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.” EndsHandsLightFilmPeriodsSpreadTunnelsExhaustingLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:John Hurt
“Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.” WayHeartChildrenHomeFilmCommunityEnvironmentMonthsPeriodsSixOppositesSeasonsCommittedWelcomeAwardsSix MonthsNestsNurturingNucleusPolar Opposites Author:Mahershala Ali
“The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.” IfsNeedsWritingTryingIdeasCharacterFilmStuffWaitingSupportStruggleCreationPeriodsPagesSellsNotionScriptsExcitedBlankGet RealBad IdeasBlank PagesTime PeriodsBad Stuff Author:Whit Stillman
“The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during which he's struggling to figure out which direction to go musically and in his life. I play a record executive who's there to try to get Miles to collaborate with one of my clients. I'm excited to see that.” TryingYearsPlayFilmNextStruggleRecordsFiveFiguresPeriodsExcitedMilesFive YearsExecutivesClients Author:Michael Stuhlbarg