Christoph Waltz Quotes
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I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?
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I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.
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Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
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I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.
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You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
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Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.
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You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
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I don't like to read novelizations of movies.
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For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.
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A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.
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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
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One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.
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If the shoe fits, you must wear it.
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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
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It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
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Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.
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I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
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My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
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Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
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What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.
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What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.
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I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
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Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.
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You're always being cast for what you've been in last.
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I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
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I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.
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There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'
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By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
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I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
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