Stylized Quotes

(on James Cagney) No one was more unreal and stylized, yet there is no moment when he was not true.

My films deal with a stylized, expressionistic world that has a kind of grotesque beauty about it.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

The theatre is different from the movies, which is very right for the theatre, because you know when the curtain goes up, that nothing is real, that everything is stylized. The tree is not a real tree, it`s stylized. The language is stylized and must be stylized because you don`t have editing. You have to write lines so that you can communicate to the audience everything so they will understand. It`s stylized for that purpose. But film is very different because you see that everything is real. The trees are real, the buildings are real, the sky is real, so people better be real too and not stylized like on the stage.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

If I watch my old films, for example The Seventh Seal, I realize I do a lot of stage acting there; I have always been disturbed by the declamatory fashion in which I speak in a film like that. But then TV suddenly swept through Sweden, and we were all soon accustomed to realism, from newsreels, talk shows, and then of course there was the Method school of acting, which exerted an influence in Europe also. Today, theater actors, and film actors with a stage background, use a different style to the one we subscribed to during the 1940s and 1950s. Bergman`s dialog in those days was very stylized, so it would have been difficult for me to speak those lines realistically.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don`t know what the hell is going on, then it`s kind of boring.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

(Poking fun at a new Creel campaign logo using a stylized version of the letter) S ... His passion for Mexico will be the kryptonite of mediocrity that afflicts the country.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed