I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in t...
Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Some call it elegance. Some call it cruel. I like it. [kicks his retainer's severed head]
Chow Mo Wan: He didn't turn back. It's as if he boarded a very long train headed for a drowsy future through the unfathomable night.
[from trailer] Detective Richie Roberts: I swear, I will pull out my gun and put a bullet in your fuckin' head!
Little John: It'll take all the deer in Sherwood Forest to fill that belly! Friar Tuck: And twice that to fill your empty head!
Genie: Do you mind if I kiss the monkey? [kisses Abu's head then coughs up small ball of fur] Genie: Oh! Hairball.
Lt. Frederick Manion: How can a jury disregard what it's already heard? Paul Biegler: [shaking head] They can't, lieutenant. They can't.
Charlie Allnut: Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [to Rachel Dawes] This is where we make the medicine. Perhaps you should have some. Clear your head.
Bender: [after putting his head between Claire's legs under the table] It was an accident. Claire Standish: You're an asshole. Bender: Sue me.
Danny Archer: You risk my life like that again... and I'll peel your face back off your head. You understand?
"Hoot": Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
Mrs. Wilkinson: Find a place on that bloody wall and focus on that spot. Then whip your head 'round and come back to that spot. Prepare!
Batty: Did you get your precious photos? Leon: [shaking his head] ... Someone was there. Batty: Men? [Leon hesitates, then nods] Batty: POLICE men?
Private Detective Visser: Gimme a call whenever you wanna cut off my head. I can always crawl around without it.
The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
