Screen Quotes

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.