Words matter. These are the best Movie Set Quotes from famous people such as Jerry Weintraub, Ice Cube, Helen Hunt, Anya Taylor-Joy, D. B. Sweeney, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
Can’t step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can’t do that!
I don’t wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can’t say that I wish I hadn’t done it. I used to say, ‘No, I didn’t miss any of my childhood,’ but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it’s a little weird.
I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn’t matter where it is in the world or who I’m making the movie with; that’s the closest thing that I’ve got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
On a movie set, there’s so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there’s no break time. None.
I’m intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It’s terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I’m so terrified.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
When you’re even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You’re working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you’re in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.
I’ve been on the ‘Logan’ movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.
If you’re asked something on a movie set and you say ‘I don’t know,’ you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is ‘I’ll have that for you in five minutes.’
You never know what to expect when you’re a writer visiting a movie set.
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
I grew up on movie sets, I’m comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don’t understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it’s so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don’t find that my process as an actor is really anyone else’s business.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
It’s such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn’t that different from being on ‘Monday Night RAW.’ It’s all stuff that I was prepared for.
In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it’s a personal movie set.
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can’t scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that’s gonna surprise me.
I’ve spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
A writer doesn’t really have much of a function on a movie set.
I’m at my happiest when I’m on a movie set. It’s like therapy for me.
A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you’re on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn’t like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.
The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you’re a kid – fun all the time.
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won’t say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.
I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.
I don’t feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup – and not necessarily my choice of makeup – for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I’m playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.
Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there’s an ulterior thing that goes on, which is, ‘Did you have a conversation with Woody? How friendly have you been with him? Am I liked by him?’
It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.
Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it’s a bubble – it isn’t real life.
In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I’m in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.
