We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.
But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).
A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.