Gary Busey Quotes

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

After the blockbuster 'Magadheera,' I made a film with comedian Sunil as the hero. If I am interested in making a film - big or small - I will go ahead and make it.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

I like going on location for films.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

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.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

We always set out to just make a great movie.