Quotes About Takes

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

It takes nothing to get me to sensory overload.

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

In an homage, you always want to subvert it and have fresh new takes. You don't want the audience to say, 'Oh they just did 'The Amityville Horror' there,' you always want to add something new.

I felt flattered to be the kinda person one would kick out of a saloon. That takes some character.

Just being near the Éveohtsé-heómÄ—se cost me eight hours of my life. The old ones call it the Wandering Without, the nothing, the thing that takes and never gives.

I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

Being in the movie [School of Rock] was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.

Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.

Tragedy is strange. It takes away. And it gives too" -Haley

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

If Ryan could be counted on to handle Congress, thought the president, well, phew, that takes care of that.

Crime is everywhere, there is no man of yesterday. Lo, the robber everywhere, The servant takes what he finds.

Those two images, brought together by our conversation, underscored an important fact about pain: pain takes place in the mind, nowhere else.