Screens Quotes - Page 15

• Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity. Women, gay men, and trans people for a long time have not seen themselves represented, so being able to show the complexities that we all have - just as complex stories as a heterosexual white male - is crucial for us to feel more human and have other people see us as human beings.

  Marielle Heller

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are so many versions of him in the comics that it was something that I thought that we could do cinematically. He belongs on the big screen.

  Marc Webb

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Exclusive: Deanna Meske & Shirley Shirley MacLaine talk new film 'Elsa & Fred'". Interview with Chasity Saunders, cargocollective.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Kissing, Thinking, Ideas

  "'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials': Dylan O'Brien Talks Stunts, Unromantic Romance and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

  Joel Edgerton

  Levity, Situation

  "Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton Talk WARRIOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, GREAT GATSBY and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Trying, Musician

  "Shirley Manson Steps Into Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 10, 2008.

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• Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Wall, Mean

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• I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, People, Knack

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

  Greta Gerwig

  Differences, Lost, Mediums

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

  John Dykstra

  Thinking, Important, Eras

  "VFX Legend John Dykstra On ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Spider-Man’ & ‘Caddyshack’ Gophers". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.

  John Dykstra

  Real, Understanding, Important

  "VFX Legend John Dykstra On ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Spider-Man’ & ‘Caddyshack’ Gophers". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Who wouldn't want to be in Scream? I was sitting on set thinking, "Aren't I supposed to be watching this movie? I don't think I'm supposed to be here." I never could have imagined myself on screen with Neve Campbell, screaming. It just didn't make sense.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, Sitting, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Glowing, People

  "Director Wes Craven Interview SCREAM 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2011.

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• At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

  Danny Huston

  Knowing, Directors, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

  Javier Bardem

  Mean, Making Love, Challenges

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Reality, Thinking

  "Ben Affleck: I quit drinking to be good husband". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Kids, People, World

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Responsibility, Blood, Sweat

  Source: www.desdehollywood.com

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• There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."

  Mike Royer

  Thinking, Guy, Doe

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Stories, Actors

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• For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

  Christopher Nolan

  Light, Trying, Able

  "Inception: Christopher Nolan and cast UK press conference". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. July 7, 2010.

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• It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

  Jonathan Ive

  Inspirational, Motivational, Numbers

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• I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. I have a whole new appreciation of soldiers. I saw myself on screen and thought, 'That body is so not hard enough to be a soldier.'

  Richard Armitage

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Soldier

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Integrity, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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