Actors' quotes about acting and filmmaking

“Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.”
Kevin Kline

“Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.”
Sigourney Weaver

“Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days.”
Brian Cox

“I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.”
Sam Rockwell

“The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.”
Catherine Keener

“A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.”
Helena Bonham Carter

“I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.”
Xander Berkeley On Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze

“A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.”
Kevin Bacon

“So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.”
Adrian Lyne

“There are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse.”
Adrian Lyne

“Surrealism is present in most of my pictures.”
Vincente Minnelli

“I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny.”
Nigel Cole

“It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.”
Lawrence Kasdan

“All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.”
Martin McDonagh

“I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.”
Liev Schreiber

“There's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.”
Tim Story

“The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.”
Richard Charles Hastings Eyre

“In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.”
Randal Kleiser

“I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.”
Sam Mendes

“Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. ”
Sofia Coppola

“I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
Anne Fontaine

“If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.”
Juan Antonio Bayona

“It is very difficult for me to have somebody else interfere with my film. I wouldn't like to work on anything unless I have complete control.”
Cristian Mungiu

“I am very attached to doing realistic films about what I observe.”
Cristian Mungiu

“Dialogue editing is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience.”
Lee Unkrich