Latest Vanessa Redgrave Quotes from Interviews

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• A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Wonderful, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Real, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Vision, Working Together, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you can do is to be very available as a character and actor to the people you're acting with. That's equally important, whether the camera's on the other person or on you.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Character, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Important, Dialogue, Spoken Word

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When somebody can't reveal what they're after - whether by word or by how the camera is set up, lighting, etcetera - it's like an electronic beep beep; it interferes very much with what we actors can do. And, after all, the director wants the actors to be bringing forth the best that they can, according to whatever vision he has.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Vision, Interfere

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Character, Joy, Genius

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com