Samantha Morton Quotes

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

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

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

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I like very much to do movies.

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.

I love doing TV as much as I love doing movies.

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

Money is not a driving force for me when it comes to my passion: that is, dramas and films.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.

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

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'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

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'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.

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.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.