Alexandra Bracken Quotes

There can be a lot of waiting around on any film set.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

It is my passion to direct movies.

When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

I like to direct for the big screen.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

If no producer, no movie.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'