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1. "People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors."
Author: Alyssa Milano
2. "My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad."
Author: Amber Tamblyn
Author: Amitabh Bachchan
Author: Amitabh Bachchan
5. "You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line."
Author: Anthony Michael Hall
6. "I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated."
Author: Barbara Hershey
7. "It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views."
Author: Ben Schwartz
8. "I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
Author: Bill Forsyth
9. "I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience."
Author: Boman Irani
10. "Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies."
Author: Brian J. White
11. "In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage."
Author: Brooke Adams
12. "It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people."
Author: Charlie Cox
13. "I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films."
Author: Craig Roberts
14. "Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night."
Author: David Lindsay Abaire
15. "The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there."
Author: Deborah Mailman
Author: Dino De Laurentiis
Author: Douglas Coupland
18. "As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that."
Author: Eddie Redmayne
19. "There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'"
Author: Franco Nero
20. "When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors."
Author: Gaspard Ulliel
21. "When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie."
Author: Gayle King
22. "Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"
Author: Gene Siskel
23. "As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work."
Author: George Hickenlooper
24. "Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you. If performing is risky, we identify with the possibility of granduer and disaster" ("The Body" and Seven Stories)."
Author: Hanif Kureishi
25. "The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters of fruits de mer, but was only fifty yards deep. For a fortnight the Croisette and its grand hotels willingly became a facade, the largest stage set in the world. Without realizing it, the crowds under the palm trees were extras recruited to play their traditional roles. As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their limos, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit."
Author: J.G. Ballard
26. "The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors."
Author: John Singleton
27. "I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like."
Author: John Williams
Author: John Woo
Author: Josh Bowman
Author: Michelangelo Antonioni
31. "It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [...] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge."
Author: Nick Hornby
32. "A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."
Author: Nick Mancuso
33. "In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any differently. The other actors and I go in and rehearse scenes together, and then we go in the next day and perform."
Author: Nolan North
34. "I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there."
Author: Paddy Considine
35. "This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job."
Author: Paul Michael Glaser
Author: Renny Harlin
37. "Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create"
Author: Robert Bresson
Author: Saffron Burrows
39. "People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go."
Author: Salman Khan
40. "I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents."
Author: Sandra Oh
41. "My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
Author: Satyajit Ray
Author: Sylvia Kristel
43. "I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options."
Author: Thomas Horn
44. "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."
Author: Tim DeKay
45. "One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics."
Author: Tobin Bell
46. "It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before."
Author: Todd Haynes
47. "Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous."
Author: Tom Hiddleston
48. "Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter."
Author: Tony Gilroy
49. "Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film."
Author: Tracy Letts
50. "Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast."
Author: Yvonne Strahovski

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