Cardboard Quotes

Acting to mid-air is odd. There`s a perverse pleasure to it when you get it right, but often you don`t. Aliens are really hard. On the second one (Star Wars: Episode II) I was doing the scene with those tall ones - actually, I quite fancied the female one - and they`ve got actors there who will actually be providing the voices for the characters. They wore blue hard hats with cardboard cut-outs of heads taped on top of them. So you`ve got to remember not to talk to the people but to talk to the hats.

(about Han Solo, speaking in 1979) He`s not a cardboard character to me at all. He`s as real as anything else. I never thought of the character as having only two dimensions until the critics said so. And they`re wrong. The third dimension is me.

(on Zabriskie Point (1970)) It was the worst fucking - and I have to curse because there is no other way that I can express myself - picture that I ever saw. I got so angry about it. I was in love with a girl. We went to the movie and it ended the whole affair. He (Michelangelo Antonioni) hired cardboard, the worst actors, and it was a conscious effort - that`s what pissed me off.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Kenny`s family is so poor that yesterday, they had to put their cardboard box up for a second mortgage.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

We see a lot of cardboard, glass, and plastic bottles in commercial garbage bins that should be recycled. We`re more than happy to work with businesses to get them started with recycling and we hope they`ll cooperate.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

We didn`t know what to expect. We were going to build a canoe, but we didn`t think it would be strong enough, so we built it on cardboard tubes.