Screen Quotes

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.