Katie's Favorite Cast Members
Displaying cast members 1 - 30 of 40 in total
Julianne Moore
“I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.”
Jeremy Irons
“I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.”
Monica Vitti
“I owe my courage to Michelangelo’s [Antonioni] attention. I owe my strength to his confidence.”
Michael Fassbender
“In drama school, they don't think of movies as a pure form like theater, and it's films that I love most. There's an intimacy in movies - I wanted to have the same impact on others that movies had on me.”
Viggo Mortensen
“[On the role of an actor in film] It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.”
Guy Pearce
“I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.”
Mickey Rourke
“What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.”
Cillian Murphy
“Too many filmmakers today are trying to put their work into a box. I can't stand that! Making movies is a lot of work. Let's take some risks.”
Jean-Pierre Léaud
“The strongest moments in my life are when I’m filming. It’s an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.”
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
“You have no specific direction at the very beginning, you don't have a script, you don't know the story. There are little hints, so there's no right or wrong in creating your character. You can do whatever you want. And it's like an adventurous journey.”
James Franco
“As an actor, you can tell yourself that your self-worth isn’t measured by how your last movie did at the box office. But I found when acting was all I had, inevitably I would be emotionally affected by how well a movie did.”
Edward Norton
“Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal
“A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.”
Charlie Kaufman
“I try to write something that's complicated. That has different levels within it - I think people can do what they want to do once they watch the movie. I intend it to be what it is. I write for myself. What I understand.”
Catherine Keener
“Well, for one thing, I like being a supporting actress. I like to come and go in the film. The interesting characters are very few if you want to be the lead, and they depend on you being beautiful. Since I'm not interested in those parts, the pressure's off, in a way. I'm not cast for my physicality. I find that playing so many characters in so many films is a way to be in the moment.”
Christopher Doyle
“You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.”
