American - Actress | July 9, 1966 -
I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.
Pamela Adlon
MyselfWayTryShowComeWho
I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.
StrengthSmallRealityFeelAchieve
I can't imagine bringing in somebody else to direct my show. Wouldn't that be funny, if next season I had, like, Michael Bay come in and direct 'Better Things'? I wonder what that would be like?
FunnyBetterWonderNextThings
You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.
ChangeLightDaySpaceWeatherYou
I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my favorite. And then, filmmaking from the '70s is a big influence for me.
MeInfluenceFilmmakingIndependent
If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta find the different places and do your different things.
DoingYouFindThreePlacesThings
'Roseanne' was massive for me. I adored that show. I mean, the show was this couple who weren't cookie-cutter, and they were sexy, and we know that they like to have sex with each other, and they flirted, and then they ragged on their kids, and their kids ragged on them, and it was such a realistic depiction.
MeSexySexKnowMeanRealistic
The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.
PeopleHomelessGroupFirstDowntown
Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.
CarDrivingSometimesTopLungs
You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on the day, but I can tell you that I don't think I've ever been so vulnerable or been so angry in my life - like, those two emotions feel so hurt or so enraged - as when you're dealing with your kids.
LifeLoveDayAngryThinkHurt
There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it.
VoiceBoyWithoutToneSomething
They would call me 'The Cleaner' because I would replace boys who were real adolescents, and their voices completely changed, and they couldn't do the voices anymore.
MeRealCallVoicesBecauseReplace
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Pamela Adlon quotes