“But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.” PeopleFilmAnimalTelevisionRaisesTrainFilm And TelevisionWranglers Author:M. Emmet Walsh
“It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.” WayFilmOpportunityEasyAnimalNovelElegant Author:Chris Weitz
“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.” IfsEarthFilmCertainAnimalLandPlanetsHollywoodWelcomeCoastCagesNever QuitVisitingPlanet EarthZoos Author:Elinor Glyn
“You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.” FirstsLooksDifferentRunningFilmActorsDifficultAnimalCastsBoringRight ThingFrustratingWrong ThingsTrainersPromptsDifferent Experiences Author:Ethan Coen
“The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.” WorldTryingHumansFilmProcessNaturalAnimalKnowingGlimpseNatural History Author:David Attenborough