Latest Chris Messina Quotes from Interviews

• You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions. You hear people snoring in the audience, and bored to tears, or sometimes you hear the laughter, and you can hear them listening.

  Chris Messina

  Laughter, Cutting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great actors, and the DP's great, and you love it... And then there's so much you're mad about. Cause you've made so many mistakes. So yeah, there're scenarios where you're like, "Ah, I wish I could change this. How do I make this better?" "No matter what I do, the scene's not working, what do I do?"

  Chris Messina

  Mistake, Mean, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Woody Allen, when we did Vicky Cristina Barcelona, said to Rebecca Hall, "Do it one time happy, one time sad, and one time indifferent, as I won't know where you should be until I'm editing this, in terms of your emotions."

  Chris Messina

  Emotion, Woody, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you cry too much on screen, you're crying for the audience.

  Chris Messina

  Cry, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.

  Chris Messina

  Running, Nice, Smart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was shooting on The Mindy Project while I was editing Alex of Venice, which was the stupidest thing I could've done. It was like having two full-time jobs. But in editing some characters were dropped, some storylines were dropped. It just starts dictating what it's supposed to be.It's scary, but fun to try to be brave and to "kill your darlings." To get rid of the stuff that you were like, "Oh, I'll never get rid of that. I love that. As long of a take as it is, I'm gonna keep that in."

  Chris Messina

  Fun, Character, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com