Kara Hayward Quotes

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this." When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic." I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!