{"quotes":[{"text":"(On period costume posture coaching:)'We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["actors","filming","historical-costume","movies","period-costume","posture"],"id":12655,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["19th-century","actors","filming","improvisation","language","movies"],"id":19265,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["acting","acting-life-actress","actor","actor","actors","actress","brainy","cinema","cinematography","compassion","courage","director-be-film","film","film-director","film-industry","film-makers","film-making","film","film-script","filming","filmmaking","films","humanism","humanizing","inspirational","model","modeling","movie","movie-making","movie","movie","movies","rational-thinking","reasoning","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","social-psychology","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":73973,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["filming","love-scenes","movies","physical-exertion"],"id":85556,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["acting","acting-life-actress","actor","actor","actors","actress","brainy","cinema","cinematography","director-be-film","film","film-director","film-industry","film-makers","film-making","film","film-script","filming","filmmaking","films","inspirational","model","modeling","movie","movie-making","movie","movie","movies","social-psychology","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":113292,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["accidents","cooking","filming","fire","movies"],"id":116550,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["comfort","empowerment","filming","gender","independence","men","movies","security","strength","women"],"id":118068,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["acting","acting-life-actress","actor","actor","actors","actress","brainy","cinema","cinematography","director-be-film","film","film-director","film-industry","film-makers","film-making","film","film-script","filming","filmmaking","films","inspirational","model","modeling","movie","movie-making","movie","movie","movies","social-psychology","wake-up-the-world","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":127656,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["acting","acting-life-actress","actor","actor","actors","actress","brainy","cinema","cinematography","director-be-film","film","film-director","film-industry","film-makers","film-making","film-script","filming","filmmaking","films","inspirational","model","modeling","movie","movie-making","movie","movie","movies","social-psychology","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":131697,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["animals","filming","fish","movies"],"id":135787,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}