Film Set Quotes - Page 2

• I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, Acting, Employment

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Dating, Broadway, and Dumbledore". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.

  James Marsden

  Couple, Commitment, Play

  "Cats and Dogs Voice Actors Curl Up with Kidzworld!". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

  Adam Croasdell

  People, Special, Passionate

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• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Film, Known

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• The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stupid, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

  Noah Baumbach

  People, Dynamics, Film

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• I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

  Nick Frost

  Film

  "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost: the triumph of the nerds". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2013.

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• Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

  Eric Bana

  Running, Fun, People

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Sex, Men

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

  Sofia Coppola

  Art, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

  Clint Eastwood

  Film, Importance

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Mean, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.

  Lola Kirke

  Home, Wife, Acting

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?"

  Lola Kirke

  Interesting, Want, Way

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching people on the film set, and just saw how small everything was and how intimate the scenes could be.

  Luke Evans

  People, Saws, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.

  Sergio Leone

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mom, Stars, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!

  Keith Carradine

  Space, Hook, Aliens

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

  Yasmin Paige

  Challenges, Different, Tvs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

  Michelle Williams

  Grateful, Years, Cameras

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• I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

  Eric Bana

  Photography, Nuts, Cameras

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

  Keira Knightley

  Fighting, Scripts, Film

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

  Colin Firth

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing it well, you're not doing anything. And there are a few of those. It's perfectly possible to be a passenger on a film set because if somebody else has written it, you can make nothing of that role and that's exactly what bad directors do.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Directors, Roles

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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