Kelly Masterson Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Kelly Masterson
I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world. — Kelly Masterson
Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is? — Kelly Masterson
It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing. — Kelly Masterson
The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast. — Kelly Masterson
None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen. — Kelly Masterson
I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future. — Kelly Masterson
I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words. — Kelly Masterson
I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters. — Kelly Masterson
Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect. — Kelly Masterson
As a writer, I'm limitless. — Kelly Masterson
I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience. — Kelly Masterson
I am always drawn to father/son stories. — Kelly Masterson
Nelson McCormack on 'Killing Kennedy' was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort. — Kelly Masterson
'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world. — Kelly Masterson
The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge. — Kelly Masterson