#act

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#exact #exact opposite #i #interviews #next

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#i #interested #learn #moment #more

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. ↗

— John Hancock

#actions #along #business #get #greatest

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#everything #fact #mentally #outer #outer world

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