Dominic Monaghan Quotes

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

The platform doesn't really matter to me, whether it's stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it's a story that I would want to watch and if it's a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that's really what gets me.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

I am open to doing cinema as long as I find the script right.

I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.

I am mostly concerned about the script. If I get something that excites me, I will do it.

I do get stressed at times, but I love what I do as an actor. This is the part that I don't like. I don't actually like talking about - I wish I could just go and get on with my job, because I love getting a script, breaking it down, working with other people, bonding with other people, fighting with other people, and out of those arguments, creating something that nobody expected and seeing it all come together. Telling a story, having an impact on people's lives, moving them and making them laugh.

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.