I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when I read the entire script for the first or second time. Then, when I get the shooting schedule, I have a better idea of what scenes are shooting when. I then will focus on those that are coming up first.
No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it’s done.
I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don’t have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively.
When I got back from shooting ‘Deception,’ I was under contract with NBC, so I can’t really do anything.
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
Stop making the same games about shooting something and driving; try something else. There is a market for that.
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That’s the goal I’m shooting for. When they revive ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ for the seven-hundredth time.
Four months after we finished shooting, I’d been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat – actually in London – and he’s sitting there and goes, ‘Wow, I just can’t believe how ripped you are.’
‘Awake’ was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn’t know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.
I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on ‘Saturday Night Live.’
When I’m not shooting, I like to spend time with friends and family.
I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens.
I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I’m shooting.
We shot ‘Breaking Bad’ on film; we capture ‘Better Call Saul’ digitally. In the shooting of ‘Breaking Bad,’ we would have this steady, handheld, cinema verite sort of look, so we purposely went the opposite way with ‘Better Call Saul’ – locked in the cameras and made the movements smoother and more mechanical.
I’d love to play in, like, a ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.
You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.
People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
I get a lot of dramas, but I’d like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that’d be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting… for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.
‘Under the Skin’ is handsome, in a dour way, but inert – a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You’ll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.
For ‘Vikings,’ we have to do so much outside shooting, and it’s normally – I think with American shows, it’ll be 60 or 70 percent inside and a little bit outside, but with us, it’s almost 70 percent outside, and that’s huge and really difficult.
I didn’t learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines, even, for someone who says, ‘Look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice,’ but do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even quicker with that kind of weapon? For what purpose?
There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you’re making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you’d never know.
In a very real sense, all you do when you’re shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.
I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.
I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.
Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.
I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads even before they start shooting, which I respect. They finish their work on time. Being a disciplinarian myself, this suits my style.
People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.
Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.
The entire time I was up shooting ‘Suits,’ I was running back to my trailer to help get ‘Nine Circles’ produced. It’s a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws – some meaningful, some unproductive – the right yells ‘slippery slope’ and hides behind the Constitution.
The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.
JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He’s incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on ‘Lost,’ we’d do a take and he’d go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of ‘Lost’ as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of ‘Alias.’ He’s an incredible multitasker.
When you’re shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
Everything about ‘Avunu 2’ will be many notches higher than its prequel. The sequel is scarier, and there’ll be more thrills and chills. I myself felt it when I was shooting.
It’s hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like ‘Mudbound.’
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it’s increments, tiny little pieces.
People ask me what the appeal of ‘True Blood’ is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn’t become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.
We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of ‘Leverage’ with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us.
I don’t think anyone is pro-school shooting.
I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that’s fine.
From my experience of shooting ‘Tudors’ on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
On ‘Game of Thrones,’ I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we’d see photos of what we’d shot online and think, ‘My God – people really care.’
