Editing Quote by Richard Corliss

If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can…

— Robert De Niro

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

— Charlie Brooker

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities…

— George Eliot

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You…

— Tony Kushner

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate…

— Anonymous

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled…

— Alison Sweeney

I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared…

— Natalie Portman

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're…

— Sheryl Lee

I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this…

— Jessica Alba

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen…

— Christopher Guest