Idris Elba Quotes

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.