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Quotes About Set

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.
~ George A. Romero
It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.
~ Reece Thompson
I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.
~ Hilary Mason
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
~ Gloria Swanson
It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.
~ James Marsden
I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.
~ Cheryl Ladd
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.
~ Milos Forman
The only technical difference you will find is, if you are keeping goal as a male, they will play a bit further out, but set positions are the same, and techniques are constantly evolving.
~ Karen Bardsley
When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
~ Sanaa Lathan
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.
~ Chester Brown
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
~ John Malkovich
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
~ Andrew Lau
I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.
~ Lauren Cohan
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
~ James Gray
Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep. I speak the Word from the hidden gulfs that never knew the sun Send me a servant for my hate, oh scaled and shining One!
~ Robert E. Howard
a kind of emotional exhaustion had set in.
~ Robert Galbraith
It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.
~ Robin McKinley
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.
~ Lewis Carroll
Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
~ Donna Leon
Okay then, we're set" he thought. "Come and get it". The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didn't have a fucking clue.
~ Dougie Brimson
This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set
~ Pauly D
I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
~ Timothy Olyphant
Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.
~ Ricky Gervais