If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
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.
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.