Top 66 Film Set Quotes

I actually find it’s one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That’s something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

‘Slow West’ is a film that I did with Michael Fassbender in New Zealand and Scotland. The director was John McLean. It’s a film set in the 1800s. I play a young Scottish boy brought up in the royal family. I fall in love with someone who works on our land.

I’ve been working since I was 9, and I’ve never known a life without a film set.

Being on a film set, you are always around such fantastic people. And I feel like I’ve been lucky. I feel like I’ve worked with the best of the best.

One of the best things – and something I’m grateful for every time I walk onto a film set – is my six and a half years on Dawson’s Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around – anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I’d say, ‘You need that job done? Fine,’ and I became indispensable to people.

Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did ‘Young Adam’, for instance, I’d come out of ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘The Island’, and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then ‘Young Adam’ cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.

I’d love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn’t happen, I’d sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

I’d be happy doing anything on a film set.

Nothing can teach you what it’s like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

On a film set, for me, there’s so much more time to process what’s going on than there is on a television set. There’s more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what’s going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It’s what I like to do.

It’s always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices – as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it’s always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the ’50s about women who discover their love for other women – a lot of these things are not in ‘Carol.’

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you’re an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can’t happen, it won’t happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

It’s such a thrill walking onto a film set.

A film set is very casual. If there is a senior actor, by the end of it, you end up joking with him.

Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director’s hat is only trying to justify his position.

The first film set I was on was Karan Johar’s ‘Student of the Year.’ I was somewhere behind in the crowd with many people as college students.

My biggest high is just to be in front of the camera and be on a film set.

I love writing books, but it’s a solitary experience. When I’m on a film set, I’m with a bunch of other artists working together to make one thing.

I learn from everybody on a film set.

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.

It’s good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you’ve got two roles to play at one time, then that’s great to do.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I’m a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

When you’re on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That’s true of all of life, but it’s very vivid on a film set because you’re always managing that.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

It’s amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

The next film I’m making is a horror film, and I’m making it with A24. It’s a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film, set in Sweden. That’s all I can really say now. It’s called ‘Midsommar.’ Everybody’s been spelling it wrong. It’s ‘midsummer’ in Swedish.

A film set is a workplace for me; it’s my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

It’s very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you’re on a film set.

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn’t hard work. It’s not ditch digging – which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank’s low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.

Excalibur’ was a quest for my father. I remember it was manic on the film set. And we had these massive castle sets. I think my dad was under tremendous pressure making the movie because there was so much going on. I remember it was a hard one to make – a lot of stress and strain.

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn’t be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn’t too difficult.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.

I’ll say initially acting was my first love, and that’s what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, ‘I think I want to be in charge.’ I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.

On a film set, everything’s done for you. You get to a stage where you can’t even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we’re trying to portray the human condition, but we’re often not living in reality.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

Most of my life, I’ve been on a film set. There isn’t anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It’s just in me.

I don’t feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Usually on a film set it’s making sure that everyone is there for their scene, and the moment their scene is over they disappear.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

There’s a lot of pressure on a film set that’s more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you’re nervous about what’s going to happen next week.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.