Cate Blanchett Quotes

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

You can't direct without a good crew.

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you've got to really believe; you've got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.