Tom Hanks Quotes

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.

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

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.