Samantha Morton Quotes

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

I feel like biopics are so difficult to get around.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.