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

• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Small
  • Film

• 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

• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

  

  Will Self
  • Art
  • Character
  • Film

• Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  

  African Spir
  • Consciousness
  • Evolution
  • Improvement

• Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • God
  • Believe
  • Without

• I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Cottages
  • Apartments

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

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

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Ultimately