Louis Theroux Quotes

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.

Television is all about deadlines.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

I'm busy all the time.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

Soaps have a schedule where you have to be done in 15 minutes. With an hour show, there's no way to get off schedule. On a movie, it's a lot easier to go back and reshoot scenes. I wasn't used to that at all... taking the time to really make each scene as good as it can be, which you can't do on soaps.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.