Marissa Jaret Winokur Quotes

I like going on location for films.

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

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

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 like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

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

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 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.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.

The script is so key to making a good movie. But everything is against you when you're making a movie: the logistics of putting a crew out where you need to go, whether the light is fading; if the weather's not right, something's wrong.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

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

When I was shooting 'Okja,' that was my first time actually seeing a trailer for actors.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

I love being on a movie set.

You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

Anyone who's stood on the floor of a set knows nothing gets done by itself.