Kevin Spacey Quotes
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.
Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.
I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.
Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
