The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
Ben KingsleyRead
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The director plays a crucial role in shaping a film's vision and execution.
This quote emphasizes the importance of the director in filmmaking, suggesting that they are the primary artist responsible for guiding the overall creative process. The director's vision influences every aspect of the film, making them the key player in translating the script into a visual narrative that resonates with audiences.
Themes
DirectorCinemaFilmCreativityVision
In practice
Example use cases
In a film studies class when discussing the role of a director.
More from Ben Kingsley
All quotes βSomewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
Ben KingsleyRead
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
Ben KingsleyRead
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
Ben KingsleyRead
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
Ben KingsleyRead
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
Ben KingsleyRead
Similar quotes
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
V. S. NaipaulRead
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.
Marcel DuchampRead
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
Ludwig Mies Van Der RoheRead
Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
PrinceRead
Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.
Wes CravenRead
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. MacaulayRead