Bindi Irwin Quotes

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

You can't direct without a good crew.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

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.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

When I was shooting 'Mud,' every day was my favourite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.