Joanna Lumley Quotes

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

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I like going on location for films.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

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.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

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

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.