A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'
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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 never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
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.
When you shoot a film, it takes six months, and it's very important keep the morale of the crew up top, all the time, and keep them on their toes, and keep them enthusiastic.
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