Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

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.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

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 like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

It takes two years to make a good film.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

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.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

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

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.