Lauren D.'s Favorite Cast Members, Page 2
Displaying cast members 31 - 58 of 58 in total
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.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
Gena Rowlands
“[on Cassavetes] We had a great deal of freedom when John acted. We traveled a lot and it was fun. But with directing … really. I think people don’t have all their marbles who prefer directing to acting because you write for three months, you cut for maybe six months. He’s the most terrifying perfectionist about what he wants. As an artist I love him. As a husband I hate him.”
Geraldine Chaplin
“Daddy [Charles Chaplin] has never seen anything I’ve done, but he is the best critic I have. He has taught me how to tear down a character. “Slug your guts out” is his philosophy of acting. Never mind the talent, just work hard.”
Lizabeth Scott
“What you call film noir I call ‘psychological drama.’ It reflects the fact that there are so many facets in human beings. And that is why I don’t know if anyone else calls it ‘psychological drama’ but I do. At that time, to myself, it was psychological and dramatic, because it showed all these facets of human experience and conflict, that these women [femme fatales] could be involved with their heart and yet could think with their mind.”
Emmanuelle Seigner
“Because I was his (director, Roman Polanski) wife, the press judged me as a wife and not as an actress, which was very painful for me. That’s why I decided to do my own work and work separately. But one day I would love to do a great movie with him.”
Alla Nazimova
“The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
Jean-Louis Trintignant
“The best actors in the world are those who feel the most and show the least.”
Anita Loos
“It’s true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it’s a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman, sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.”
Val Lewton
“You shouldn't get mad at the New York reviewers. Actually, it's very difficult for a reviewer to give something called I Walked with a Zombie a good review.”
Julie Delpy
“I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.”
Anna May Wong
“I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to.”
Peter O'Toole
“Films were never in my budget. Didn’t occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I`ve had and I`m having as an actor. I didn`t expect the rest.”
Tommy Lee Jones
“Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun. ”
Marlene Dietrich
“I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.”
Emmanuel Lubezki
“Artificial light is simple. It is a specific color temperature and feel. But, natural light is complex and sometimes chaotic. A bounce from the floor or a reflection from the sky can do so much.”
Louise Brooks
“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”
Barbara Stanwyck
“During Double Indemnity, Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, "How was I?" [Fred's response was] "I don't know about you, but I was wonderful!" Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.”
Maggie Cheung
“I am at such a nice time in my life and I don’t want to end that for something that I don’t 100 percent love. You have to defend a film that you have done no matter what - professionally and personally.”
