Alexis Bledel Quotes

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.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

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

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

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.

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

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

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

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.