Ben Barnes Quotes

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.

I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

When you are pursuing art, it is critical to develop something signature. There are plenty of people who are followers, but it is absolutely necessary to have something that sets you apart.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.