Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

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

My wife has now made a point of, after losses, to bring our son into the bed when he wakes up in the morning. So when I'm waking up and I'm still obsessing over whatever happened the night before, I see this little guy right in front of me smiling and wanting to connect with me. It's totally changed how I compartmentalize.

Housewives' is real, yes. We say what we're thinking at the time. But filming our real lives is a huge production that takes a long time. Sometimes you have to sit there for hours and hours while the show is being produced.

I don't remember doing more than one take for a film.

I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.'

Usually we have pick-up shots to film after all the main work is done; sometimes we even do them after our wrap party. Just like when you're packing up and moving, it's the little things that end up taking the most time, and there is no romance in the clean up.

If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.

I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

Not that I have any regrets about my first film. It was a learning experience and I'm grateful for the opportunity. But I think somewhere we went wrong with the planning and execution of my debut.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.