Rutger Hauer Quotes

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

I've realized what I want to do in life in that I just love being in front of the camera.

I will not hesitate to take up good film offers.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I can physically act! I can go on open casting calls and audition for something.'

I am happiest when I am on the sets.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.