Thomas Gibson Quotes

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

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

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice.

With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it done, to get something that works. With a big studio, everything is there for you, and it's easier.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

In our case, with 'Raze,' we had a really, really tight schedule. We shot something like 17 fights in three and a half weeks which is insane.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

My husband himself is a producer, so we know the practical difficulties of producers.

Unless it's a song and something fancy, I would rather shoot on location.

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

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

I don't like to shoot on sets at all. As much as possible, I try to shoot on location.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

A lot of male cinematographers stick a pillow to their stomachs so they have somewhere to rest their elbows while shooting.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

Like, I've worked on movies where you go in every day and you know that what you're shooting isn't very good to start with and then you have to figure it out, and that's way harder.

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

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