Zoe Bell Quotes

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

My entire career has been behind the camera, and that's definitely where I'm most comfortable.

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.

I've always wanted to work with the best directors. Directors lead you to the best material and thus the best actors.

A lot of male cinematographers stick a pillow to their stomachs so they have somewhere to rest their elbows while shooting.

My grooming as an actor took place after working with top directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, BR Chopra and Shakti Samantha.

A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell a good through line and journey.

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

I had watched 'Stanley Ka Dabba' and wanted to be a part of Gupte's kind of cinema. As an actor, I am hungry for diverse roles and my sole aim is to learn as much I can from him.

I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.