Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder. '
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
You can't direct without a good crew.
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything. . . It's the most important aspect of a person's life.
When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.
I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.
Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set. . . I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.
I think producing is first about understanding and finding people who understand it in the same way throughout the crew and everybody who's going to be working on it. And a piece of that is also personality, because there's a lot of psychology into being a good producer.
I don't know if that comes in a number, I don't know if that comes in a plaque, I don't know what it is. If I can keep me and the crew around me happy, stable, and out of jail, then we good.
I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
It's funny what you really see when you're the subject of the completely bizarre gossip magazine industry. It's just like, 'WHAT?!?' All this stuff with Emilie [de Ravin, his costar in Remember Me] as well. The tabloids say stuff like 'They went on a date to an Indian restaurant. ' We were doing a scene! There's a film crew there!
I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.