Thomas Langmann Quotes

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

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

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

While 'A Blessed Child' might have been a more tough-minded book had Ullmann thrown a spanner into the works, it's not hard to understand her decision to keep things going.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.