Todd Solondz Quotes

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Todd Solondz

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• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Individual

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Three

• Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Fight
  • Actors
  • Possible

• You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Actors
  • Illusions
  • Pigeons

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Waiting
  • Story
  • Actors

• Parts win prizes, not actors.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Actors
  • Prize
  • Parts

• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Want
  • Actors
  • Use

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • True
  • Movie
  • Acting

• For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Acting

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Walking
  • Directors

• Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Actors
  • Girls
  • Photograph

• I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."

  

  Declan Lowney
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Drama

• Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Age
  • Answer
  • Details

• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Black
  • Desire
  • Impression

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Actors
  • Directors