Film And Television Quotes

• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Theatre, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

  Shirley Knight

  New York, Theater, Moved

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Frustrating, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

  Nick Park

  School, Degrees, London

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• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  Stephen Root

  New York, Goal, Actors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Thinking, Visionaries

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• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  Natalie Zea

  Thinking, Drawing, Done

  "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Three

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Storytelling, Ends

  The L Word Finale Special, March 08, 2009.

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• Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Feels, Approach, Television

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• I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

  Michael Cudlitz

  School, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Movie, Real, Mind

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Television, Film, Pampered

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• I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

  Jan Hammer

  Years, Television, Film

  Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.

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• We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Years, Games, Creating

  "Devo guitarist Bob Casale dead of heart failure at age 61". www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Broadway, Theater, Television

  "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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• In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

  Tony Kushner

  Technology, Way, Journalism

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• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

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• I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Film and television are just different. Film is cool because its a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so its constantly a mystery as to what youre going to be doing.

  Austin Butler

  Different, Beginning Middle And End, Scripts

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• Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Technique, Cameras

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• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  Karl Urban

  Inspiration, Trying, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Regret, Years, Training

  "Charlotte Rampling (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Theatre, Acting, Term

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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