Kevin Spacey
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part.
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
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.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
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 supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.
People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.Collection: Caring
You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.Collection: House Of Cards
If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.Collection: People
The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.Collection: Loser
Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.Collection: Passion
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.Collection: Real
We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.Collection: People
I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.Collection: Thinking
Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown awayCollection: Powerful
The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.Collection: Character
If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.Collection: Inspiring
The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.Collection: Jobs
Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.Collection: People
It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.Collection: Interesting
I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.Collection: Successful
Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.Collection: People
It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.Collection: Jobs
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.Collection: Honesty
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.Collection: Humor
I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.Collection: Suicide
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.Collection: Years
Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.Collection: Differences
As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.Collection: Directors
Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.Collection: Character