Actors Quote by Kenneth Branagh

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue…

— Bille August

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really…

— Vincent Cassel

I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing.…

— Lee Unkrich

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that…

— Amy Bloom

You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions.…

— Chris Messina

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you…

— Michel Gondry

In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some…

— Robert B. Weide

I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will…

— Christopher Lee

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the…

— James McAvoy

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard