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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc ...
YAEL STONE When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that a...
ROY CONLI I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is ver...
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PABLO SCHREIBER When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
BELLAMY YOUNG![]()
I think the arc of history is long, and it bends toward justice. And I think that's what the ...
CASS SUNSTEIN![]()
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly wher...
ROSE MCIVER In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, yo...
ADDISON TIMLIN![]()
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KEVIN SPACEY I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the enti...
SHAWNEE SMITH![]()
That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character yo...
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LATANYA RICHARDSON![]()
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ...
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DAVID ANDERS![]()
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BRITTANY SNOW![]()
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA![]()
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.
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ROBERT GALINSKY![]()
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in thea...
ADAM DRIVER Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all ove...
DAN SCANLON Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with si...
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STEVE APPLETON![]()
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN It's a real shame, ... I think we're in a period where theater has gotten intimidated by the power o...
HEATHER MCDONALD![]()
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
MATTHEW FOX![]()
It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it u...
JOSS WHEDON![]()
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every nigh...
BLYTHE DANNER Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelli...
MELISSA ROSENBERG![]()
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into...
SEAN BEAN One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that yo...
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RIZ AHMED It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after t...
TREAT WILLIAMS![]()
I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ...
JOSS WHEDON![]()
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ...
CAROLINE SHAW In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we wan...
AMBER STEVENS Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to...
MICHAEL PATRICK JANN![]()
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s...
AMBER BENSON![]()
When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, b...
DREW BARRYMORE![]()
I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or T...
JULIA STILES When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a composition...
CHICK COREA For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
MAE WHITMAN![]()
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're...
RACHEL MCADAMS I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.
PAUL GREENGRASS![]()
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what childr...
SIMON SCHAMA We've been told that we'll have to make a wide arc and kind of come in the back door,
MILTON CARNEY A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN![]()
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of c...
SAM BRADFORD With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color ...
HANS ZIMMER The high arc faucets give you more room to wash your hands, get a drink of water, or even wash your ...
LIN PANNELL![]()
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosi...
MICHIO KAKU![]()
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just...
GUY PEARCE![]()
Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in th...
STERLING K. BROWN![]()
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, alr...
JAMES WAN I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN Players will be able to assemble their character from pieces of other Star Wars characters that they...
DAVID PERKINSON The Romeo-and-Juliet type of film writing is not so successful in TV because it is such a small medi...
HENRY MANCINI You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two...
GAVID HOOD What happened is, we got out of our pressure defense. In the first half, we were playing defense for...
FRANK FERRARO They have a lot of air, they can house 25 people, a full crew, for 36 hours, and they can release ox...
FRITZ CORRIGAN![]()
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a...
GARTH STEIN To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ...
X. J. KENNEDY For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui...
D H LAWRENCE![]()
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But ...
CHERRY JONES My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal ...
JOSEPH GATT You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thorough...
HANSIKA MOTWANI![]()
The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you ca...
NICK HANAUER I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#...
KELLY MASTERSON![]()
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theate...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Des Arc out-pitched us and out-hit us in that game. They just out-played us.
DENNIS RINE![]()
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within o...
CALLIE THORNE I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and...
OLIVIA D'ABO In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film yo...
JUDI DENCH This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.
LEIGHTON REESE![]()
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's s...
GWYNETH PALTROW Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six ...
DAVID WENHAM![]()
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You lose, that's what you do. They shot the ball extremely well from behind the arc obviously, and t...
BRIAN KERN![]()
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit...
D. H. LAWRENCE When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO![]()
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 per...
SPIKE LEE TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. Y...
KARAN SINGH GROVER I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everythi...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ![]()
I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or ...
LAUREN GRAHAM Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different ...
ANNABELLA SCIORRA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM![]()
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ...
MEL GIBSON One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obv...
DYLAN WALSH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is boomin...
HASAN MINHAJ I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y...
DAVID ANDERS
DAN GILROY With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there&#...
DAN FUTTERMAN
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc ... YAEL STONE When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that a...
ROY CONLI I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is ver...
CARY ELWES It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that ...
PABLO SCHREIBER When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
BELLAMY YOUNG
I think the arc of history is long, and it bends toward justice. And I think that's what the ... CASS SUNSTEIN
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly wher... ROSE MCIVER In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, yo...
ADDISON TIMLIN
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 2... KEVIN SPACEY I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the enti...
SHAWNEE SMITH
That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character yo... JULIANNA MARGULIES In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have ...
LATANYA RICHARDSON
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and ...
DAVID ANDERS
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards ch... BRITTANY SNOW
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.
CHELSEA CAIN It's a real acting challenge. There is no slow build here. There is no time for a long story arc. Th...
ROBERT GALINSKY
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in thea... ADAM DRIVER Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all ove...
DAN SCANLON Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with si...
WALTER MURCH How would you like 15 hours of battery life on a notebook rather than three or four? What if you did...
STEVE APPLETON
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M... ELLEN BURSTYN It's a real shame, ... I think we're in a period where theater has gotten intimidated by the power o...
HEATHER MCDONALD
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. MATTHEW FOX
It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it u... JOSS WHEDON
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every nigh... BLYTHE DANNER Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelli...
MELISSA ROSENBERG
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into... SEAN BEAN One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that yo...
PAMELA ADLON Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to ...
RIZ AHMED It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after t...
TREAT WILLIAMS
I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ... JOSS WHEDON
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ... CAROLINE SHAW In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we wan...
AMBER STEVENS Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to...
MICHAEL PATRICK JANN
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s... AMBER BENSON
When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, b... DREW BARRYMORE
I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or T... JULIA STILES When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a composition...
CHICK COREA For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
MAE WHITMAN
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're... RACHEL MCADAMS I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.
PAUL GREENGRASS
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what childr... SIMON SCHAMA We've been told that we'll have to make a wide arc and kind of come in the back door,
MILTON CARNEY A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of c...
SAM BRADFORD With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color ...
HANS ZIMMER The high arc faucets give you more room to wash your hands, get a drink of water, or even wash your ...
LIN PANNELL
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosi... MICHIO KAKU
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just... GUY PEARCE
Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in th... STERLING K. BROWN
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, alr... JAMES WAN I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN Players will be able to assemble their character from pieces of other Star Wars characters that they...
DAVID PERKINSON The Romeo-and-Juliet type of film writing is not so successful in TV because it is such a small medi...
HENRY MANCINI You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two...
GAVID HOOD What happened is, we got out of our pressure defense. In the first half, we were playing defense for...
FRANK FERRARO They have a lot of air, they can house 25 people, a full crew, for 36 hours, and they can release ox...
FRITZ CORRIGAN
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a... GARTH STEIN To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ...
X. J. KENNEDY For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui...
D H LAWRENCE
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But ... CHERRY JONES My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal ...
JOSEPH GATT You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thorough...
HANSIKA MOTWANI
The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you ca... NICK HANAUER I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#...
KELLY MASTERSON
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL
We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theate... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Des Arc out-pitched us and out-hit us in that game. They just out-played us.
DENNIS RINE
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you ... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within o...
CALLIE THORNE I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and...
OLIVIA D'ABO In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film yo...
JUDI DENCH This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.
LEIGHTON REESE
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's s... GWYNETH PALTROW Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six ...
DAVID WENHAM
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You lose, that's what you do. They shot the ball extremely well from behind the arc obviously, and t...
BRIAN KERN
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit... D. H. LAWRENCE When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 per... SPIKE LEE TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. Y...
KARAN SINGH GROVER I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everythi...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or ... LAUREN GRAHAM Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different ...
ANNABELLA SCIORRA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ... MEL GIBSON One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obv...
DYLAN WALSH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is boomin...
HASAN MINHAJ I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y...
DAVID ANDERS
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw m... 
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She concedes that she's the one she pleases. 
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