Fast-Paced Production Quotes

'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don't have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively.

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

In Bollywood, on an average, movies are made in six months or a year, but Puri completed 'Loafer' in two months.

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

On 'B&B,' we shoot so fast and eight episodes a week, so we have to always be on our A-game. There's really no time to make certain adjustments. We usually shoot a scene in one take, maybe two or three only if needed.