Rupert Grint Quotes

Love scenes in general are the most technical things to shoot.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.

With film, you stop and go. You have to do 20 takes or whatever.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.