Zoe Bell Quotes

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

To shoot a movie that takes place in three decades in 30 days is a lot on the hair and make-up team.

Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.

When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.

In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

Single-camera is more relentless because it's eight 14-hour days no matter how you slice it.

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.

A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

I used Malta as a location to shoot a lot of my action sequences, and that's because we don't have the kind of setup that Malta Film Studios does. They have a world-class facility.