When I was auditioning, I didn’t know it was ‘Daredevil.’ Everything was secret. They’re secret agents. They wouldn’t give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.
During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers.
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
When you’re shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you’re playing, really.
From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on ‘Jumper’ was done ‘Swingers’-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
It’s always challenging when you’re shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.
One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.
I like having the ball in my hands and being able to make plays, but I think my shooting is an asset, too.
I can’t be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don’t think anybody can do that.
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don’t blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.
When you’re doing a film, it’s your film and it’s, you know, your blood and – is in it along with everybody else’s, and it’s the greatest picture ever made when you’re shooting it. It’s only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
I’m happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota. I also don’t want to shoot just any studio movie just to say I’m shooting studio movies – for me, quality of the material comes first, and if eventually that leads to a really great studio project, then that’s a bonus.
I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.
For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.
I’ve only ever played ‘God of War’ while we were shooting it. I’ve seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting ‘God of War,’ they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we’d sit there playing ‘God of War’ to get us into the mood.
Some of the best writing I’ve done, whether I’m shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I’m running. Running literally jogs my brain.
My uncle used to take me out at night shooting rabbits.
I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn’t bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.
I’m not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values – or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
I was in Mauritius, shooting for ‘Break Ke Baad,’ and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and reading are my other pastimes.
Shooting a movie isn’t good for a sleep disorder.
I’m vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.
Something like ‘The Matrix’ would be ideal, something where it’s super agents and wire work and special effects – not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
I don’t really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn’t mean that the other 39 are bad.
I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it’s something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.
If you’re shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn’t want to look at the camera.
Well, I’ve learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I’m shooting a scene and someone’s driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.
The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.
When I’m shooting a film, I don’t look at playback. I don’t go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven’t seen any of it.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Oh, yeah – I could see myself as a catch and shooter, come off curls and shooting. I really feel good about shooting the ball.
Even if you’re doing a film, you’re in the news while the shooting is on and during promotions. But once it’s over, the limelight fades away, and you wait for something better to come your way.
‘Shooting Star’ started out as the arrangement on the record, and it’s developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.
I have a husband and two kids, and they’re usually around when I’m shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that’s what I’m dealing with when I go home.
More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story – that’s what I like best of all.
Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.
Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on ‘Survivor.’
Multi-camera’s fun because you have the immediacy of the audience and just being able to tell the story more or less straight through. The thing I like about single-camera is that you have the luxury of shooting a lot of different options.
Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
They’re not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They’re shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
I feel mindless comedies make you relax – there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.
I’ve hidden behind the camera my whole life because I much, much, much prefer shooting. Being behind the camera is my safe space, and it’s my creative space, too.
I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don’t think that’s it.
