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“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”

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“I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.”

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Author:Alan Parker

“Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.”

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Author:Rosamund Pike

“A day on a film set is maddening.”

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Author:Maggie Siff

“For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.”

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Author:Catherine McCormack

“On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.”

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Author:Chaske Spencer

“On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

“As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.”

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Author:Carson Grant

“On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.”

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Author:Christine Swanson

“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.”

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Author:Rosamund Pike

“In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.”

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Author:Ben Whishaw

“It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.”

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Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.”

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Author:Roger Moore

“The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.”

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Author:Holliday Grainger

“If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.”

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Author:Nick Frost

“A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.”

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Author:Adam Croasdell

“Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.”

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Author:James Marsden

“I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.”

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Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.”

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Author:Michelle Williams

“I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing it well, you're not doing anything. And there are a few of those. It's perfectly possible to be a passenger on a film set because if somebody else has written it, you can make nothing of that role and that's exactly what bad directors do.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.”

“In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.”

“If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.”

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Author:Michael Winterbottom

“I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.”

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Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable”

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Author:Cillian Murphy

“All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.”

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Author:David Hayter

“I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.”

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Author:Yasmin Paige

“I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.”

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Author:Dan Mazer

“I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

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