It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
Tom Doniphon: Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim.
Nora Ericson: Poppa - go put your pants on!
Goudy: [cross-examining Rooster] How many men have you shot since you became a marshal, Mr. Cogburn? Rooster Cogburn: I never shot nobody I didn't have to. Goudy: That was not the question. How many? Rooster Cogburn: Uh... shot or killed? Goudy: Oh, ...
General Sternwood: You knew him too? Philip Marlowe: Yes, in the old days, when he used to run rum out of Mexico and I was on the other side. We used to swap shots between drinks, or drinks between shots, whichever you like. General Sternwood: My res...
Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Sophina: What happened? Jason: They fucking shot him! They shot him in the fucking back for no reason, man!
Bartender: You want me to take a shot? All right. [pours himself a drink] Bartender: I'll take a shot!
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.
Give it a shot and you may miss the bull's eye, but if you fail, even to take a shot,then there really never was a bull for you in the first place
The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
Craig McDean was probably one of the first people I shot with. I shot with him for years with Tommy Hilfiger and a few other jobs. He's just so nice and just a super normal, funny guy.
