Lucy Deakins Quotes

It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

You can't direct without a good crew.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.