When you're filming for seven months or six months at a time, you bond with people hugely.
I don't like when people say I act good for my age. Who would have said that to Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson when they were filming 'Harry Potter?'
I burn a lot of energy when I'm filming, so I eat a mountain of chicken, broccoli, potatoes and salad, and if I'm absolutely exhausted, I'll have a chocolate bar, too.
I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.
I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.
When you're actually filming, there are times when you get access to places you'd never get to see.
No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.
If the show is great, it doesn’t matter who wrote it. It doesn’t matter who takes charge when you’re filming it. It just matters if it works or not.
If I could choose, I would say [I would like to be filming with] Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio.
It's really weird, people love filming, they love being on camera.
I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
With something like Waterloo Road' it was a lot slower and because I had a relatively small part - I mean, my character wasn't a main - I wasn't in filming so much.
Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
Some people thought that I was crazy for declining a lot of offers while I was filming 'SKTKS,' but I have waited patiently because I knew I had a winning hand.
When we were filming the first 'Magic Mike,' we obviously had a limited budget; it was an independent film. And we would entertain extras in between takes.
I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.
I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.
If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.
I was asked to perform at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. But I was up a tree in Borneo filming a documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace! So it couldn't be done.
I don't tend to go totally bare, but on non-filming days, I will only wear tinted moisturiser, mascara, blusher, and a ChapStick for my lips.
Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
Filming 'Jamestown' in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got along so well.
I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough - it really broke me psychologically.
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.
Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.
A lot of people ask me if I have a special skill by any chance, but I never thought about the angle or technique when filming a kiss scene.
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.
When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.
After our first week of filming 'Deadpool 2,' Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, 'To Firefist' on it.
After filming the first season of 'Poldark,' I went with the cast on a trip to Iceland. We started off in Reykjavik and then went into the mountains and swam in naturally heated pools.
I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.
I really, really loved 'Preacher.' I can't wait to go back. It's one of the best times I've had filming.
Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.
Filming 'Doctor Who' is so incredibly different to 'Spooks.' Near to the surface, there's quite a silly atmosphere. A lot of the times, you're on the verge of giggles because it's so over the top.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.
I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.
You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
Helena Bonham Carter was one of my biggest crushes. And Rachel Weisz. I think I told her that when we were filming, which was probably a bit embarrassing.
On 'Made In Chelsea' there are cameras in my face and some days I think, 'I can't go to filming today,' but I just have to dry my tears and pull myself together.
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.
Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.
There is no denying that when you show up to be on 'The Bachelor,' you are filming a TV show.
I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
When filming videos you spend hours getting ready and hours waiting around.
Spending time away from family during filming, I think, for every working mum is always difficult. But it has to be done; there's no way round it you've just got to do it.
When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."
'Chocolat' was a joy to make, as we were filming in beautiful locations in France and England. Lasse Hallstrom is such an amazing director - overall it was a wonderful experience.
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
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