Bill Murray Quotes

'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

I'm the third generation of my family in the film business, and I grew up with a deep passion for movies. I made my own Super 8 films when I was a kid and always loved the editing process.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

I respect Srikanth garu, I worked as an assistant director for his film 'Radha Gopalam.'

I would love to do a commercial film. But my hero is the script.

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.