Taylor Handley Quotes

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I love having made a movie.

I really like shooting in real locations.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.