After college I funded my
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.
– Justin Chadwick
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- I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who’d done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan
- All in all, I’d like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film… it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really. – Tom Weston-Jones
- I don’t watch a great deal of television because I don’t have a television, and I don’t have a huge catalog of films that I’ve watched, either. – Lucy Griffiths
- I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. – Tim Robbins
- I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn’t born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. – Ken Burns
- Live theater provides a rush you can’t get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play. – Raymond Cruz
- By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. – Jodie Foster
- That’s the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that – you know, I live a pretty simple life, I’m not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So
- The life so short, the craft so long to learn. – Hippocrates
- For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles. – Kathy Bates