Joshua Leonard Quotes

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Joshua Leonard

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

  

  Ted Lange
  • You
  • Film
  • Difference

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Audience

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Film
  • Cinema
  • Editing

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • You
  • Like
  • Film

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Dialogue

• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Film
  • Idea

• Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Important
  • Long
  • Energy

• I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

  

  Adele
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Spice Girls

• Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • World
  • Children
  • House

• I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Ultimately