There’s a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you’re an actor you’re somehow not a member of the crew. You’re somehow more special. I hate that.
Meaning of the quote
In Hollywood, actors are often seen as more important or special than the other people who work on a movie, like the camera crew, directors, and producers. Rider Strong, an American actor, doesn't like this way of thinking. He believes that actors are not better or more important than the rest of the crew, and that everyone who works on a movie is equally valuable. He doesn't like how actors are treated as if they are more special or important than the other people who make the movie happen.
About Rider Strong
Rider Strong is an accomplished American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Shawn Hunter on the popular sitcom Boy Meets World and its sequel series Girl Meets World. Rider has also been involved in various other projects, including the cult film Cabin Fever and the independent film Irish Twins, which he co-wrote and directed with his brother Shiloh.
More quotes from Rider Strong
You’ve seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They’re never really there. They’re in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
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I think we’ll make sure we have Boy Meets World reunions.
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I’d much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.
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I hope to always be doing some low budget things.
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Maybe that’s the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
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To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
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Maybe that’s my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.
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I don’t really want to be doing high budget, where they’ve got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.
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Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
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I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
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