Words matter. These are the best Tobin Bell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m always amazed… I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like ‘Oh here we go, Dad,’ because they had been looking. They were like, ‘You’re the guy, aren’t you?’ And I said, ‘Well, maybe.’ They said, ‘He is, he’s the guy on ‘Charmed!’
Halloween is fun, but it wasn’t always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the ‘Saw’ thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.
‘Saw’ is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I’ll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about ‘Saw.’
‘Saw’ is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner… That’s the way ‘Saw’ plays out.
You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men… I like playing bad guys, and I don’t have a problem doing that. They’re interesting characters, and there’s as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys – they’re rich, they’re strong, they’re powerful, and so that’s fine with me.
I’ve worked with multiple directors throughout the ‘Saw’ series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I’ve been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it’s been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can.
‘Saw VI’ has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you’re doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.
‘Buried Alive’ is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.
An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director’s first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that’s not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
‘Saw’ has been a unique experience in that I’ve had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.
Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They’ve got all the research they’ve done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they’ve got what the departments like special effects need them to do.
I learned that I could not do enough work; it’s always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.
It’s a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.
