Harry Shearer Quotes

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

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

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.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.

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.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

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.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

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.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I would love to produce a film.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

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.