Courtney B. Vance Quotes

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.

Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

I don't like the media attention.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I'm working on producing my own shows. "Girls Next Door" was a great place to start but it was somebody else's show. I'm just ready to move on.