Zitat des Tages von Rebecca Hall:
Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.
I've worked on so many films where the script is one thing and then, somewhere down the line - on set, sometimes - it changes, and there's zero I can do about it.
You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.
No family is sane, is it?
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.
You either are a good director or you're not.
Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there's an ulterior thing that goes on, which is, 'Did you have a conversation with Woody? How friendly have you been with him? Am I liked by him?'
When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.
If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.
Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.
Some people just don't have the tools to deal with the stuff life throws at them.
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.
I was quite quiet as a kid. I sat around watching people.
I don't have regular TV; I have Apple TV, so I pick what I watch, which is perhaps not a good thing. I read all the big publications and also listen to a lot of podcasts.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my new dog had gone to the toilet underneath my piano. Lots of silly things.
I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.
I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way about a film called 'Lay the Favorite' that I made with Stephen Frears. I did that because the character was a real leap for me. The film doesn't quite all add up internally, but I feel very proud of what I did on it.
A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.
You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure what it's revealing, and then you perform it.
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.
I felt very fulfilled after doing 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' because I'd always wanted to work with Woody Allen. That was like a lifelong dream, and that was thrilling for me, to enter that world.
I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men - that it's so rare to see something like this. We're just not given the opportunity so much.
I always look for contradiction in a character.
The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.