Quotes About Screen

For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

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'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work.

Any film which makes me play myself on the screen comes easy for me.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

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

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

People are getting used to women's football on their screens, so as long as the quality of the product is high, we'll draw fans to the sport.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.

When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to figure out who they are. They're dealing with identity issues and crises. That is exciting to me, to see African-American young people on a page, on a screen, who are so diverse and whose stories are all so different.

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.