Andre Øvredal famous quotes

I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.
-- Andre Øvredal

#Work Out #Important #Actors

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
-- Andre Øvredal

#Details #Pieces #Architecture

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.
-- Andre Øvredal

#Strong #Jobs #Thinking

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.
-- Andre Øvredal

#Together #Directors #Elements

If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.
-- Andre Øvredal

#People #Too Much #Taste

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'