Joe Cole Quotes

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

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.

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

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

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.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'