Judge Reinhold Quotes

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

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.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.