Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

I like working on big budget films.

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I did not know much about cinema and acting.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

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.

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

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.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.