The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express and the ’80s NWA crew; Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes – that was a great crew of talent and they were all so great to work with.
2021 is a fresh start for all of us. Production houses, actors, directors, the crew are strictly following shoot guidelines so we can finish our pending shoots and start new projects.
I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
‘EastEnders’ has been wonderful to me and it’s no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I’ll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she’s such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don’t recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.
You can’t get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I’d want the best people and the best stuff.
‘GH’ became my family in a sense. I had a family and friends in the actual cast and then in real life; loved everyone on set and the crew.
As a producer, it’s not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you.
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
Crawling around naked in front of a crew of people at the age of 53? Hello? That was scarier than anything.
When I worked with Chinese crew for the first time, including production unit, spot boys etc, everyone was so affectionate, sweet and kind.
I don’t think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It’s kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.
There’s something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I’ve had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.
For an actress, everything is always fine – you are looked after, you have your trailer, and everything provided. But the crew are the ones out there in the wilds all the time, hours before and after us.
Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids – and I can say that this does happen frequently – is when the in-flight crew say to me, ‘Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.’ Every time I am told that, I could weep.
Everyone knows everyone because we’ve all worked in theatre. All of our ‘Dublin Murders’ crew came from ‘Game of Thrones’. Also, we only drink in two pubs in Dublin, so we always bump into each other.
Grime’s always been big at festivals. Grime’s always had an underground crew.
There was a time in school where I was trying to figure out which lunch table I belonged to. Eventually, I started my own table and formed my own crew.
It’s not always an easy process when you bring in a whole new crew of guys because you trusted the last people so much that it’s hard to build the same rapport again.
Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.
I also really like getting to know our crew members better.
When they don’t have your back on a show, it’s the worst feeling ever. That energy trickles down to the cast and crew. You can feel when it’s not gonna be a winner. But when you have the support of the network and the studio, it’s a really good feeling.
Inches matter. That’s why they measure first downs. That’s why they have a crew down there with those chains.
With comedy, it’s a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good – it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily… that would also be the result if you sucked.
‘Crime Story’ was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa’s crew.
If we’re having a tough day, we’ll bring the babies on, and suddenly, these crew guys who have, like, tattoos all over their necks are cooing and fawning.
For me, when I did ‘Thor,’ they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent – and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day – never happened to me before.
I was awake for the therapy, it was documented by a film crew. I am proud to have taken part of helping millions of people even if it has bad results.
It’s hard work to think away all those 200 people or 40 people, whatever the crew is, that are around behind the camera. To also think about, ‘Whatever I’m doing now is going to be seen by a million people,’ it doesn’t really help my performance.
Alex Zamm is probably the most talented director I’ve ever worked with. He is so good at working with actors and crew and setting up his shots.
We all have those people in high school and college that we shared that important time with, but don’t necessarily keep in touch with. It’s the same thing with the ‘Hills’ crew – they’ll always be a part of my roots but I don’t necessarily talk to them every day.
It’s an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K… It’s great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way.
I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I’ve heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as an actor.
I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.
When you’re on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
Film was something that I didn’t see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I’ve ever been. That is the only schooling I’ve ever had.
The Lifted Crew, I think that they’re a great band that plays great soul music. They may have studied a lot of soul, but really, their heart and soul is in hip-hop.
In ‘Winter’s Bone,’ it’s literally the director and the camera operator. That’s it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.
I want a pit crew… I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn’t know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.
I’m a recovering jersey wearer who can’t bear to get rid of the blaze-orange Knicks warmup top that makes me look like James Carville on a highway repair crew.
I will always find my light. No question. And if I don’t, I’ll know, because my dad will be the first person to call me and say, like, ‘You need to have him bring another 2K in,’ and ‘Why aren’t you using this sort of lighting gel?’ The crew guys know that it’s where I grew up.
Ninety per cent of the crew that work with me are there since my childhood and which is why I do not want to work too much outside – because the people I work with are as important for me as my role.
I would love to run the Indy 500 someday. But I would only want to do it if the right opportunity was out there and I was in a car I felt like was capable of winning with a team and crew that has a history of winning here at the Speedway.
‘Wild Grinders’ becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name for my first skate crew – who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?
