Joseph Fiennes Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Biblical, Editing, Creative

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com.

• So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com. May 24, 2016.

• The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Character, Skills, Experts

• But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mean, Hollywood Films, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Years, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Brain, Tvs

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

• There are a couple of films that I've done, where I've had to get on a horse and wear a pair of tights, so that helped. But, nothing could have prepared me for the fun of wielding magic like Merlin does, especially in the perverted mind of Chris Chibnall.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Horse, Couple, Fun

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

• Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Film, Christ, Ends

  "A chat with Joseph Fiennes - star of historical thriller "Risen". Interview with Ann Schneible, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 10, 2016.

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