Laurie Metcalf Quotes

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.

Every role I have played has had a bit of me in them.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

Cinema is a temple and who am I to say which person deserves entry?

When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur.

I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.

I feel just as much a part of 'War Eternal' as I do 'Will to Power.'

I think there just needs to be an emotional attachment to the surfer, however you get that, so that, when you watch the surfing, you can relate to that person, or you're rooting for them, in a way.

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.

I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame.

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

In Bengali films, since I also write the lyrics, there are certain songs, which I get emotionally and personally attached to.

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another, and you get to really be so connected with it.