Quotes About Production

My day job has always been in the theatre.

Television is all about deadlines.

I was at a point in my career where I longed for a bigger stage, a brighter light, and I'm very grateful to 'Dancing With the Stars' for allowing me to become part of that incredible production and incredibly talented cast. I am forever in debt to them for that opportunity.

With a production house like Padmalya Films and a co-star like Mahesh Babu, 'Atithi' was just the right film to debut with.

Director Kabir Khan had read the script of 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' and is responsible for roping in Salman Khan for this film - a movie that will also mark as Salman's debut production.

To shoot a movie that takes place in three decades in 30 days is a lot on the hair and make-up team.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.

It is not the script that defines a film. It is the execution of the script that counts.

TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

Delays can't mar a film.

Capitalism can't exist without demand.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

TV's demands are different from those of films.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.'

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.