Latest William Mapother Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

  William Mapother

  Raises Questions, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

  William Mapother

  People, Feelings, Entertainment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.

  William Mapother

  Crazy, Writing, Our World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

  William Mapother

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.

  William Mapother

  Hate, Decision, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.

  William Mapother

  Long, Waiting, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

  William Mapother

  Wise, Giving, Actors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

  William Mapother

  Hong Kong, Hollywood, Impossible

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it."

  William Mapother

  People, Looks, Speak

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.

  William Mapother

  Writing, Voice, Crafts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

  William Mapother

  Responsibility, Actors, Too Much

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

  William Mapother

  Boys, Editors, Feet

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

  William Mapother

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

  William Mapother

  Teacher, School, Character

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

  William Mapother

  Thinking, Possibility, Priests

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

  William Mapother

  Philosophy, Too Much, Dames

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.

  William Mapother

  Philosophical, Reading, Interesting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

  William Mapother

  Firsts, Film, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

• I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

  William Mapother

  People, Entertainment, Inspired

  Source: collider.com

• One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

  William Mapother

  Editing, Way, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

• Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

  William Mapother

  Actors, Method, Suggesting

  Source: collider.com