Luke Evans Quotes

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

I'd love to get into comedy and test out new genres of film.

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.

I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

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.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.