218 Quotes by Susan Sarandon

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

Children reinvent your world for you.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.