Henry Ian Cusick Quotes

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.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

Housewives' is real, yes. We say what we're thinking at the time. But filming our real lives is a huge production that takes a long time. Sometimes you have to sit there for hours and hours while the show is being produced.

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.

In the case of 'Game Of Thrones,' I've been to set a couple of times, and it's really exciting and inspiring for me to see the set and the actors in action, meet them and talk to them, so it definitely helps. If I can go to set, I will.

Working on 'Roadies' has been a fantastic experience.

Well, we shoot for so long on 'Stranger Things' that I know Atlanta really well.

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.

I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.

On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'

That's the only thing I'm jealous about 'Game of Thrones': they get to go to Spain all the time.

When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.

When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order,' where I literally didn't move my neck because I thought you couldn't move your head on camera.

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.