When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
Well first of all, it’s hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
There’s a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
I’m being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
Well, I haven’t really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can’t shoot there. It’s just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t deliver on this level.
My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.’
A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
It’s so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.
Shoot for the moon – if you miss you’ll end up in the stars.
I’m in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don’t ride horses, I don’t golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.
I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they’re perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During ‘Spamalot,’ I rewrote Act II three times.
Everyone in their career is going to go through a slump, but the thing is how you react to it. You’re either going to talk about it or you’re going to try to shoot your way out of it and I’m going to try to shoot my way out of it.
I loved ‘Dirty Sexy Money.’ That didn’t have a long enough shelf life. I would’ve liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it’s there, and make plays for my team.
I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.’
Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in ‘True Blood’ is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
We were fortunate that most of the ‘1666’ stuff we did shoot all together. We were filming out in Hampton, Georgia. It was so amazing. They built a village for us to shoot in. It made our job as actors so much easier.
They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It’s just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.
Any film you make is a crap shoot.
As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene… or shoot the shot ’til they make me quit.
I think it’s a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.
In Bollywood, it is common for shoots to have unexpected delays and go well into the night, but shoot schedules in the South are mostly wrapped up by evening, unless absolutely required.
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn’t have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I’m so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
It’s the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, ‘I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.’
Whenever I don’t get injured, the film is a dud. I didn’t bleed on ‘Rhinestone.’ I didn’t bleed on ‘Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.’
On ‘Stranger Than Fiction,’ the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
You didn’t have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
I eat whatever I want. I don’t follow any diet. The reason I workout is so that I can eat. If it’s a bikini shoot, of course you should not eat a pizza a day before. Otherwise I am not a dieting kind of a person. If I am hungry, I make sure I eat.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.
My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn’t let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer; we knew we had made a mistake!
I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there’s no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.
You ask any actor – they’ll tell you they’d rather shoot on location because you don’t have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot – you just can’t fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It’s actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there’s really nowhere to hide.
I figured there’s nobody who’s going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can’t help if people don’t like me up there in Washington. I’ve got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.
Long ago, I was lucky enough to shoot ‘Flashpoint’ and ‘Durham County’ at the same time. It doesn’t happen often in an actor’s life that you get two great parts simultaneously.
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
I remember this time I worked with Linda Evangelista on a shoot for Richard Avedon. I just put grease on her face, and it was beautiful.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That’s the only fight I’m in.
If I’m working on a film, I’ll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don’t know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you’re lost.
I have to say, when you make a movie, you really have no idea how it’s going to turn out as an actor. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it because the minute the shoot ends, it’s got nothing to do with you anymore.
When Rakesh Roshan called me for ‘Khoon Bhari Maang,’ it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
With Animal Factory you’d think that because it’s mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.
I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria’s Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident – that made me feel very comfortable.
Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn’t shoot anybody.
I’ve got to tell you what, the soldier doesn’t fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That’s not what military leadership is all about.
I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I’ll look like an idiot because I didn’t say I don’t like it. It’s OK to have an opinion.
I’m a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that’s a part of my culture.
