Gale Anne Hurd Quotes

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

You'll go see a movie like 'Matrix 2,' and the car chase goes on and on and on and on. They had all the money in the world and all the time in the world. It doesn't make it an any better action sequence.

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

I always loved experimenting in film.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.