Aidan Turner Quotes

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I like working on big budget films.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

I want to make a movie with Al Pacino someday.

We are able to create incredible set-pieces here in the US that TV shows often don't have the resources to create in the UK.

The production scale of 'Okja,' which I had never experienced before, was jaw-dropping. Not only the actors but also all the staff were experts in their fields.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.