LaTanya Richardson Quotes

I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.

I try to enjoy a movie or a television programme just like anybody else. I'd love to be emerged into the story and watch it, but if you work a lot as an actor, in any aspect of the industry, things might arise in a programme that somebody might miss, whereas it might catch your attention.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

'Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'