Roy Conli Quotes

If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

I always tell people this - when you start wrestling, don't forget that part you liked as a child. If you can keep a bit of that in your act, you can keep a bigger audience.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them to have something to really care about and something they enjoy and look forward to on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever it is, where you get to sit down and escape.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

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

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.