Aaron Stanford Quotes

I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.

I was forever changed by my experience on 'Once and Again.' All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

'17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

I'm very close to every girl in the locker room.

Some of the closest friends you make in TV are the producers who travel on field assignments with you - you're together 24/7.

I think the interaction I had with Salman in 'London Dreams' kind of helped to have a comfortable relationship in 'Ready' because of the rapport created. He is always very supportive.

When training and matches are finished, we'll all go out and have food together; we're always in touch with each other.

I believe when two people are in the same profession, they understand each other better.

I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson, all have the same birthday. We were all in on the same day and they all sang us "Happy Birthday." That will never happen in my life again: Four of us having the same birthday on the same film, and we're all in on the same day. It was an extraordinary thing.

Everyone had coverage. You might have like three lines, but there were 10 people, so they would cover each person. Three lines could take 12 or 15 hours, but it was fun because everybody was together. As hard as it was to shoot those scenes, I always enjoyed when we were all together.

It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.