Jeff Bridges Quotes

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how to be visual and economical with scenes. However, finally it's the individuality of the writer that will come into play.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

You first and foremost need to be honest with the script because you don't want to do anything to screw up the basic fundamentals of the story. You don't want to create anything overly dramatic when you don't need to, and you don't want to create anything less dramatic than necessary, either.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

Our job as directors is to really give the audience a sense that all this exists in a universe somewhere. Even if it's a slightly more stylized or comedic world than we live in, it's still really important that it has an authenticity and integrity to it.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.