Film Quotes
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The stage on which you perform in film and TV is much smaller. Moving your eyes across the frame is equivalent to crossing from stage right to stage left in a big Broadway house. Coming from a theatrical background and temperament, this is something I am still learning. However, I think ultimately your responsibilities to the character and the overall story are the same in both mediums, so my approach felt very similar.
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To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.
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I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
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From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.
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Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
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People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.
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What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
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My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.
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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
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I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.
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When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
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Films that I want to do are few and far between.
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The more times people laugh, the better the film is.
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I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.
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Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment.
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I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.
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A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
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The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.
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I like doing film, you know, single-camera.
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I've always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.
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My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.
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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
