39 Quotes by Sam Levinson

I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique.

There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.

As a child I'm sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of their childhood and adolescent years. I feel it's a time when all of us need an escape, a place where we can leave the world behind and just disappear. For me, it was film.

I remember John Waters's 'Pink Flamingos,' that was the film where I realized you could do anything you want - there were no boundaries.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.