Quotes About Production

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

Big feature films are another world.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

The truth of the matter is that it's not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you're running around different countries.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that sense I prefer it. But in terms of the scale of it, features are fantastic.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

On an average, any short film will cost at least Rs. 60,000. Apart from film festivals, where is the avenue to get that money back?

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

That whole experience of filming in Canada was one to remember.

Filming in London is brilliant.

With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.