Park Chan-wook Quotes

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

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.

When we were doing 'Criminal Justice,' they were filming 'Clash of the Titans' nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, 'Look what they've got!'

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

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

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.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

I love 'Beetlejuice' - that's where I met my husband! He designed the sets, so I have nothing but fond memories of that movie.

A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'

While filming 'Annie Hall,' I never really hung out with Woody Allen.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

I sometimes have dreams that my assistant director is waking me up and trying to get me to the set.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.