Jeff Bridges Quotes

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.