Lena Headey Quotes

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.

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

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'

I want to do movies with great stories. The content should be strong.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

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.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

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.

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

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.