The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. There are a bunch of ways that we can be complementary to broadcasters.
I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
[last lines] Waldo Lydecker: Goodbye, Laura. Waldo Lydecker: [narrating off screen] Goodbye, my love.
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
