Steven Yeun Quotes

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.

If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

Now I do perhaps three films or 17 TV movies a year.