Courtney B. Vance Quotations

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this."

You learn your lines as well as you can and you go in there and go with whatever is thrown at you. Sometimes you don't know whether or not they're going to break the scene up, so you don't have to do it all at one time.