Joel Basman quotes

You want to do movies that you are proud of - telling a story that you want to tell, not a story that you are forced to. Of course, as an actor, there are some things that you do that you try to forget about, but that's part of the job.
-- Joel Basman

#Trying #Proud #Forget

There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it's the pure satisfaction of doing what you really want. I always had a problem doing things that I didn't want to do. I don't have a problem when my director says: "Don't do it like this; I want it like this." But generally in life, I like to do what I want, and for me the best way is through acting and making films.
-- Joel Basman

#Acting #Problem #Film

You shoot this and it always has something of yourself - sometimes it's more and sometimes it's less. I think after the shooting it depends on who your character is. You definitely learn something about yourself, or you get to know sides that you knew you had, but you had never activated or triggered in a way that allowed you to let them out. Bad and good, all of this is in all of us. But you definitely meet another side or a quarter or ten percent of yourself that you had an idea of, but never really knew about.
-- Joel Basman

#Character #Thinking #Sometimes

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.