#act

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#american audience #american cinema #american films #audience #beings

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #best #doing #exact #exact opposite

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#development #how #i #me #moments

I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#because #become #characters #else #exciting

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#always #description #job #job description #less

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script. ↗

— Curtis Hanson

#down #dress #fact #good #movie

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#appreciate #beneath #fact #far #freedom

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#attack #inevitably #seen #subversion #values

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#ago #amazing #amazing experience #combined #everything

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#anything #body #could #factor #just