Film Set Quotes - Page 3

• 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 don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly.

  Tony Kushner

  Moving, Math, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• 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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• I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Long, Actors

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• Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

  James McAvoy

  Strange Places, Littles, Film

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• I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

  John Malkovich

  Levels, Impossible, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  Damian Lewis

  Play, Two, Roles

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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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• 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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• Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

  Rosamund Pike

  Actors, Film, Human Nature

  "Bodice ripper". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

  Alan Parker

  Editing, Solitude, Directors

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

  Diane Lane

  Gun, Directors, Negative

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• My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Brother, New York, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Incentives, Film, Feels

  "Q&A – Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

  Dree Hemingway

  Growing Up, Thinking, Doors

  "Dree Hemingway on 'Starlet,' Porn and Her Famous Great-Grandfather, Ernest". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.

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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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• For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

  Carey Mulligan

  Film, Difficult, Stills

  "Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Matthew Beard: interview". Interview With Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

  Tony Kushner

  Forever, Firsts, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Growing Up, Kids, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

  Emma Watson

  Kissing, Needs, First Kiss

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• You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

  Olivia Wilde

  Talking, People, Oscars

  "Olivia Wilde: 'People thought I could only play the badass" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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