Hugh Jackman Quotes

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

The formula for a successful film is simple: good script, good direction, a dedicated cast and a fantastic crew. If you have all of these elements then the rest will fall into place.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make. There is so much more invested in it for a lot of different people, so much money is sunk into it that they usually want some guarantee or promise that it's going to be able to do something on a financial level. There's just a lot more messing with you in film. I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience.

I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

I do like working on television but I prefer film. I just want to work mainly but the pace on a movie is slower and you get to form more of a family. There is more time to work with whereas TV is faster paced.

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.