Natalie Dormer Quotes

Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

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

There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.

I work instinctively. If I like something, I do it.

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You have to finish the episode; it doesn't matter how long you have to go on Friday night, but you have to get it done.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

I don't have much of an organization at all. I listen to my heart.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.