Preston Sturges Quotes

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.