On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.
A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens… - Vanessa Redgrave
A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens…
- Vanessa Redgrave
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too. - Vanessa Redgrave
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter. - Vanessa Redgrave
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word. - Vanessa Redgrave
What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.
The arts stop society going rotten and mad. - Vanessa Redgrave
The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone. - Vanessa Redgrave
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of be… - Vanessa Redgrave
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of be…
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers. - Vanessa Redgrave
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. - Vanessa Redgrave
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
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