Penn Badgley Quotes

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.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.

I definitely want to go the route of feature films.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

I think I want to produce action movies.

I noticed while working on Green Lantern that the actor - albeit forefront in the film, obviously, and the key focus for the audience - is kind of the smallest cog in the machine when you're shooting.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

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.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

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

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.