With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'
Lena Headey
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to b... BAM MARGERA Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're bas... STEVE JOBS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, ... ODEYA RUSH Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoyi... ALISON SWEENEY If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that'... AERIN LAUDER Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to b... BAM MARGERA Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If... NEVE CAMPBELL When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then yo... CAMPBELL SCOTT When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and yo... PATRICK ROTHFUSS A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they ... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they... SYLVIA BROWNE When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you... PAGET BREWSTER The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your... TONY GILROY A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the mos... AMY HECKERLING When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the... AGYNESS DEYN Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find ... BABYFACE That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don... VICTORIA PRATT When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and s... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI 'FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lo... SONYA WALGER So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you'... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Until you love yourself, until you really believe that, you're stopped in your tracks. That'... CHRISSY METZ Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will d... JAMES PATTERSON Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're n... MAX GREENFIELD If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a l... SPIKE JONZE So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, ... CRAIG SAGER My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you... STEVE IRWIN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we... COLIN TREVORROW Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance ... DENIS LEARY That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you'... ERIC MCCORMACK So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. AARON ASHMORE I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watchin... OLIVIA THIRLBY Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference betw... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are... BRIAN J. SMITH When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a rol... MARION COTILLARD Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to ... YARA SHAHIDI You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew m... BILLY CAMPBELL I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let ... FRANCINE PASCAL I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing wit... CHELAN SIMMONS One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored som... CHERYL STRAYED It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your ... CHELSEA PERETTI You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... CALVIN JOHNSON If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of... JAMES NORTON You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your h... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Bla... DENIS VILLENEUVE When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that... WES ANDERSON What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of ... JASON REITMAN You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and lo... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes u... RAMEZ NAAM You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g... JOHNNY CASH With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, ... MARTIN FREEMAN I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your frien... SETH GORDON I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k... GEORGE HARRISON I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you&... JACOB DEGROM If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... TRISHA YEARWOOD You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're... KENDRA WILKINSON It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... HELEN MIRREN I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everythi... MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loya... LUCY HALE When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, t... CARY FUKUNAGA But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed ... CHRISTOPHER MELONI I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your ... FAYE MARSAY A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important... JOSE PADILHA When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int... ROBERT REDFORD 'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... SEANAN MCGUIRE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu... ZADIE SMITH In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're... LADY GAGA My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, t... EVA AMURRI
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