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."
When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.
I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
The only entry level position on a movie is director.
Film-making is a physically hard job.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
Honestly, I've never had anybody with 'Teen Mom' ever be anything but great to me. Except the editors - they suck. Everybody from the crew, I love them, they're like family to me... I've never had a problem with any of them. Except the editors.
I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.
I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
I think every film is like a team game, especially for me. I have always got films which have a strong cast.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
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.
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.
When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.
In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.
When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.
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.
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
'Big Bang' is very tightly scripted. Because we shoot in front of a live audience, it's basically like doing a filmed piece of theatre, really.
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
