Jill Scott Quotes

I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

The only time I scream is when I see the 5 A.M. start on the call sheet.

On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.

'Bahubali' did not happen overnight. The producer Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prabhas, and I kept talking and discussing and imagining.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

I have worked with some great directors.

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

This movie 'On the Road' with Kristen Stewart - they were trying to make that movie for 30 years. She says she wants to do it, and they can finally make it. You have so much at your disposal if you're in a successful commercial film.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.