Quotes About Film

I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a very expensive film school.

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while I was studying, and we did not have neither electricity nor cinemas for three and a half years.

I've got to continue to study, and if it's not the plays, it's studying more film, studying more defenses, watching other guys across the league, see what I can pick up.

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

I was studying in a school in Chandigarh when Yash Chopra discovered me and cast me for 'Trishul.'

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make.

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

I got a call from somebody who used to be the president of Little Persons of America. She got called from some producers who wanted someone of a certain size in the John Hughes film 'Baby's Day Out.' So that was my big break, as the stunt double of a nine-month-old.

If the shot is going to be epic, if it's going to be awesome, and to make it epic and awesome you have to hit the ground and possibly hurt yourself, I choose to hit the ground and possibly hurt myself. Because in my silly stunt man mind, an epic shot that lives forever on film, I'll get over it in a couple of months!

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

It was fun shooting for Vithagan.' It's a bubbly character. I perform minor stunts too.