Meaghan Rath Quotes

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.

An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

Directing seems like a logical progression for me, although I would never put myself in a film of mine. How can you? Putting on make-up while you're trying to concentrate on setting up the next shot? No, no.

There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

Directing a film is a lot of physical work.

Making an independent film is so different.

You go to the edit room and see one scene which has come out fantastically, and you feel the film will set records. By evening, you look at the budget figures or something that hasn't worked out and ask yourself - what if this doesn't work?

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film." That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.