Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.
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Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.
The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
