304 Quotes by Ian Mckellen

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.