Ben Kingsley Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Fantasy, Remember

• It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

  Ben Kingsley

  Two, Years, Hollywood

• The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

  Ben Kingsley

  Pregnancy, Together, May

• There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

  Ben Kingsley

  Running, Wonderful, Film

• There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

  Ben Kingsley

  Light, Profound, Film

• Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

  Ben Kingsley

  Letting Go, Awards, Wife

  Interview with Reed Tucker, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

• I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

  Ben Kingsley

  Destiny, Thinking, Stories

• My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

  Ben Kingsley

  Special, Lines, Film

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

• When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Lazy, Acting, Film

• If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.

  Ben Kingsley

  Betrayal, Children, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

• I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away. I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives. I feed off that and work off that. I don't like to be too prepared, no. However we define too prepared, if I feel it's getting that way, then I'll back off. My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

  Ben Kingsley

  Giving, Special, Energy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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