Noah Emmerich Quotes

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

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

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

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.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.

I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

You can't direct without a good crew.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.

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

When you're even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You're working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you're in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.

The first time I ever went on set was during 'Fiza' when I was in Class X.

Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.