One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
Most screen violence is tedious.
To a poet, it’s quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I’m not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
In the end, I’m an actor. I’m paid for what I bring to the screen.
I’m worried that the audience is being conditioned. That’s my real fear. Because if they don’t want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it’s only going to get worse. Those of us who don’t want to shoot up and cut and sew, we’re just not going be cast.
The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
In a psychiatric hospital, a lot of people believe that people on TV are talking to them directly through the screen. I’m with about 500 of these people, and I’m on TV every Friday night. As I was queuing up for breakfast one morning, one guy nearly jumped out of his skin. My first thought was to go ‘Woooo!’
The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful – if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn’t spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.
I don’t think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
There’ll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.
Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.
On ‘Glee,’ the director can be like, ‘Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.’ And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, ‘I know exactly what to do here.’
I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.
I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I’m about to curl up with a book.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we’re staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
People… need a time to laugh. It’s up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, ‘I may be bad, honey, but I’m not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.’
When I auditioned for ’21 Jump Street,’ it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I’ve ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.
It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn’t think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for ‘Tron’ on stage, in the suit. You can’t even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you’re just looking at a blue screen all day.
It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
There are people who you see on screen and think, ‘Wow, that’s a slim person,’ and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don’t really want to be saddled with a screen persona.
I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that’s what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.
What’s happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.
I’ve had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.
There’s a good deal in common between the mind’s eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
It’s an honour to play a woman cricketer on screen.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.
You don’t cut anywhere, don’t pick down anywhere, don’t double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don’t happen anymore.
Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.
I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for ‘Legally Blonde,’ I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I’m a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.
It’s certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
If she looks natural on screen, that’s just the way she was in life – very unassuming and full of life.
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance… everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we’d be good together on screen.
I love ‘Annie Hall’; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She’s got real charisma.
I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you’re like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
It’s pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It’s a pretty amazing feeling.
I’m someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, ‘Someone could be watching me.’
Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.
The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we’ll be in a really great place. We’re not at that place.
I wouldn’t like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.
I never think about what people will think when they watch me on screen.
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they’re watching a movie.
I’m a passionate person. I’m a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I’m a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
It was like in Samoa when they’d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
On ‘Buffy’ I wasn’t all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.
Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, ‘That’s what I want to do for a living when I’m older.’ Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
I couldn’t imagine something asking as much of me as ‘House Of Cards.’ It’s a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It’s almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.
