Mr.'s Favorite Cast Members
Displaying cast members 1 - 30 of 46 in total
Isabelle Adjani
“If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.”
Harry Dean Stanton
“Usually, I just play myself. Whatever psychological traumas or conflicts I'm going through at the time I try to put into the role. Sometimes it's quite a feat to pull off, but sometimes it works. If it doesn't correspond to the dilemmas of the character, then I don't do the film.”
Nino Rota
Rota once said he felt it unfortunate that a film score was, usually, only a secondary element of a film, subservient to the visual images, a mere tool, used to recall and give credence to the images and the emotions those images try to evoke. —Suzanne Thomas
Max von Sydow
“I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.”
Hanna Schygulla
“I don’t think acting is that difficult. Acting is about being present in the moment when you are doing something. In that way, everybody has to be a good actor to live a full life.”
Shelley Duvall
“I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.”
Tôru Takemitsu
“The composer is like an actress who is very beautiful but may not be a great actress. A good director can make her a great actress – and a big star! So, like that I am expecting a good filmmaker to make me a good film composer!”
Hideko Takamine
“I’m telling you, acting is no different from being taught to do tricks, like a cat or a dog.”
Lauren Bacall
“Generally women are better than men - they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.”
Liv Ullmann
“When I decide to portray a part, I can never completely hide who I am, what I am. At the point of identification, the audience encounters a person, not a role, not an actress. A face to face.”
Myrna Loy
[Referring to her "perfect wife" typecasting] "Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg."
Peter Sellers
“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
Gary Oldman
“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.”
Crispin Glover
“Eccentric doesn’t bother me. ‘Eccentric’ being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn’t follow the lines – that’s okay.”
Bernard Herrmann
“[Good film music] ...can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety or misery ... propel narrative swiftly forward, or slow it down.”
Ennio Morricone
“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”
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.”
Sven Nykvist
“I like to draw from experience and from my feelings when I shoot. Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. ”
Jack Lemmon
“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
Tom Waits
“Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad - ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor.”
