Assembly Quote by Todd Phillips

Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.

— Nick Searcy

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

— Michel Gondry

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the…

— Roger Deakins

When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly,…

— Bruce Joel Rubin

The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and…

— David Ayer

I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to…

— Karyn Kusama

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to…

— Andrew Dominik

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on…

— John Crowley

Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

— Ron Howard

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early…

— Satyajit Ray

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it,…

— Vivek Oberoi

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

— Josh Peck