Robyn Quotes

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

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

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.