Terry Zwigoff Quotes

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

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

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

It's never me saying, 'When is my day over?' It's more, 'When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?' The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

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

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

You know, here in America we only work half a day—12 hours.

I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

Since long workdays lead to more errors, shorter workdays could reduce accidents. Overtime is deadly. Tired surgeons have been found to be more prone to slip'ups, and soldiers who get too little shuteye are more prone to miss targets.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

We shot every scene of mine in the entire movie in five days. All my coverage, everything. I left. They went back and shot everybody else around me. Insane. The part [Billie in Crazy Six] called for a handsome, coiffed cool guy romantic lead, and I showed up like you see him in the movie. And they let me do it.