Erin Foster Quotes

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

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.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film.

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

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.

You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much.