Acting Quote by Viggo Mortensen

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind…

— Danny Huston

I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I…

— David Leitch

A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you…

— Jose Padilha

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

— Anonymous

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and…

— Sally Hawkins

When you are acting in a film, you are only worried about your performance and how the film will shape up.

— Atul Kulkarni

One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I…

— Gerard Butler

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it…

— Jay Roach

To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually…

— Christina Ricci

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret…

— Mary Ellen Mark

The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple…

— Ari Aster

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in…

— Linda Lavin