Miguel Ferrer Quotes

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

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

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.'

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

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

I love having made a movie.

I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

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.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I make more movies than I see.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

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.