Madeleine Stowe Quotes

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

I remember Michael Jackson once called to see if I was feeling okay because I had gone home sick from the set of 'Goonies'; they'd shut down production for a couple days. I was so excited he called, but he didn't leave his number.

I know nothing about making a movie.

I had no idea, really, on my first film what I was doing.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

I've been doing second unit for years, which is sort of like directing mini movies. Now that I'm directing entire films, it's really just more of everything. There are a lot more questions that need answers.

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.

It's mentally hard. There are times when you're set back again, and you don't know what to do.

When we make a film like 'TWM Returns,' it is important that we don't think of bettering anything. It's like a baby being born: all you can hope for is the best. But you can't decide how the baby is going to look. Similarly with the movie - you can't think of making it better; you only can think of making the best film possible.

I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.

I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.

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

I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.

Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.