Daniel Mays Quotes

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

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

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.

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

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.