Taye Diggs Quotes

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

A day on a film set is maddening.

Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.

The only time I scream is when I see the 5 A.M. start on the call sheet.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.

'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'