Andrew Dominik Quotes

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good.

I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

I think you always carry a little bit of your character you've ever played with you. And I hope I'm able to carry some of Mrs. Maisel with me.

Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to.

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

All I've ever wanted to do as an actor was move people.

My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.