Neve McIntosh Quotes

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

Everything in a story should be credible.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.

I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking head or an actor reading lines.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

When you're on film or TV, essentially you're in front of the camera. Unless it's a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.