Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

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

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.

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

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

The production scale of 'Okja,' which I had never experienced before, was jaw-dropping. Not only the actors but also all the staff were experts in their fields.

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I had the greatest time of my life making 'Saw 3.' More fun than '2' for sure.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I like working on big budget films.

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.