Danny Huston Quotes

As an actor, it’s hard to direct because, suddenly, you’re not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you’ve really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.

There’s a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don’t like Picasso, that’s your problem.

I had no ambitions to become an actor, whatsoever. I was just waiting for my films to get made and some friends of mine, out of the kindness of their hearts, because I was sitting around doing nothing, started casting me in small roles and the roles got bigger.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they’re all lawyers. I’m in the family business.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you’re looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we’re all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you’re doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don’t know that they’re evil.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story’s going.

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I’ve got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films – I saw my father suffer through that.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.