Oscar Isaac Quotes
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
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The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I'm so bored by business and money.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.