Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.

We went on 'Fallon' and they had like one hundred-plus employees working on one show, and it's like, I can't afford more than two employees.

When one gets time duration, one becomes very restricted, and hence, creativity suffers.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

You don't get 5 years to build a team any more. You get 2 if you're lucky.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.