A biography for Martin Landauhasn’t been written yet.
“My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.”
“I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.”
“I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.”
“A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.”
“I've always been interested in science fiction.”
“I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.”
“I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.”
“I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.”
“I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.”
“I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.”
“With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.”
“Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.”
“No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.”
“The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.”
“For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.”
“In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.”
“I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.”
“There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody Allen and Tim Burton. Two different textures, but both get to do what they want, and that's rare.”
“Ageism is something that does exist.”
“I did theatrical caricatures.”