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.
Woody: [after dealing with Prospector] I think it's time that Prospector learned something called playtime. [points to something off screen] Woody: Right over there guys! Stinky Pete the Prospector: No, no, No! [we see a Barbie backpack come out of t...
When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.
There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
