Jimmi Simpson Quotes

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.

When your dreams are close to coming true, it does not feel real at first.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

It's always exciting to be a part of the development and creative process, and I hope to continue to do it. I feel like, especially in the comedic world, it's how things have to be done. You have to be a part of the motivating factor of getting the movie made. It's so hard.

Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.

There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.