Bindi Irwin Quotes

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.

Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing.

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.

With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'

I love being on a movie set.