Quotes About Art

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is for some people to do.

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

My big challenge, I will say, is contouring. God help us all with contouring.

I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

Many architects say that they will never do a bridge. But I think they will discover that just as Fallingwater is a piece of art, so Golden Gate is a piece of art of the 20th century.

Crying does not equal good acting.

Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

Eric Stoltz was a very good actor.

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get it right.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.