In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.
I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'
TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.
On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.
I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.
Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I still meet people who think it was real.
My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.
