Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage…

You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come…

— Courtney B. Vance

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

— Susan Sarandon

I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older…

— Kurt Fuller

When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you…

— Takashi Miike

I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years…

— Charlize Theron

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely…

— Annie Baker

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform…

— Marcel Proust

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

— Peter O'Toole

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than…

— John Barrowman

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be…

— Gordon Willis

I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the…

— Keith Carter

I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's…

— Ingmar Bergman

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous…

— Coleman Barks

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character…

— Ti West