Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Joshua Leonard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Joshua Leonard.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Joshua Granville Leonard is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his role in The Blair Witch Project (1999). He has since starred in films such as Madhouse (2004), The Shaggy Dog (2006), Higher Ground (2011), The Motel Life (2012), Snake and Mongoose (2013), If I Stay (2014), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), 6 Years (2015), and Unsane (2018).

American - Actor | Born: June 17, 1975

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I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Joshua Leonard

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Joshua Leonard

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

Joshua Leonard

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

Joshua Leonard

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

Joshua Leonard

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

Joshua Leonard

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Joshua Leonard

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Joshua Leonard

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

Joshua Leonard

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Joshua Leonard

Actors are such an insecure breed.

Joshua Leonard

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

Joshua Leonard

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

Joshua Leonard

Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing.

Joshua Leonard

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Joshua Leonard

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

Joshua Leonard

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Joshua Leonard

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