Gabriel Macht Quotes

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

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

Acting with a green screen has been physically challenging. I look at the green screen and then I'll look somewhere else and everything looks red. It's a bizarre thing where green has an effect on my vision, but it's fun.

When I filmed 'Power Rangers,' almost everything was being assisted by a green screen, but it wasn't the same with 'Stranger Things.'

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

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.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.

Whether you make an action blockbuster or a comedy or a drama, you've got the right camera and all the right technology to do it. In games, it's not the same yet, and I would like to see technologies dealing with cameras the way we do - dealing with bouquet, dealing with performance capture, with lighting - with all this stuff the way we do.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

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