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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Guy
  • Actors
  • Excited

• I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Part
  • Directors
  • Physical

• There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Never
  • Clothes
  • Shots

• The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Person
  • Helped

• Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• Qualifying for the final has already been a big breakthrough for China, so I felt no pressure at all before the final today. I just told myself that I would do my best and fight for the best results for China.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Results
  • China
  • Final

• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Actors
  • Directors