I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part...
With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is mor...
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
