Asa Butterfield Quotes

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

Actors are investigators.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

For me personally, it doesn't matter if I'm in a short film, a commercial, a digital series, a TV show, or a movie. Acting is acting. You have to embrace whatever medium you happen to be in and not worry about everything else around it.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the sight to see the film and what its story is all about.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.