Kirsten Dunst Quote

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

Jim Jarmusch

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

Nicolas Cage

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

David Fincher

Doing physical or fighting scenes in movies is really the hardest part, so wherever I could have the stunt guy do it, I'd prefer to have him do it.

Mickey Rourke

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

Roger Penrose

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

Andre Agassi

• Desire

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

D. H. Lawrence

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

Jim Jarmusch

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

Werner Herzog

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

Charlize Theron

• Belief

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

Tony Curtis

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Virginia Woolf

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

Issey Miyake

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

Quentin Tarantino

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

Paul Cezanne

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

• Reality
• Imagination