Alfie Allen Quotes

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

Cinema is about transferring thought into action.

We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

Every film is a journey.

The script is so important... Even if you have a huge entourage or big lighting trucks, the most important thing is the space between the actor and the camera.

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.