Rowan Atkinson Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Film, Critical

• I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Arrows

• Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Men, Tone, Different

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Media, Age, Theatre

• It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Needs, Tvs

  "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

• My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Relax, Problem, Film

  "Johnny English Reborn - Rowan Atkinson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Fashion, Drama, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• [Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Self, Ironic, Wish

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• [Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Nice, Character, People

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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