Chris Messina

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You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions. You hear people snoring in the audience, and bored to tears, or sometimes you hear the laughter, and you can hear them listening.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Laughter
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Invented the #hashtag.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Google
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My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Running
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Woody Allen, when we did Vicky Cristina Barcelona, said to Rebecca Hall, "Do it one time happy, one time sad, and one time indifferent, as I won't know where you should be until I'm editing this, in terms of your emotions."
- Chris Messina
Collection: Emotion
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As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Opportunity
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I am a big fan of movies from the ’70s.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Fans
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If you cry too much on screen, you're crying for the audience.
- Chris Messina
Collection: Cry