Quotes About Collaboration

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

The beauty of filmmaking in Punjabi industry is that we never control the fun happening on the set.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

I am not against two-heroine films.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I always do very detailed demos. I feel that it's better to show the director a demo that sounds as close to the final thing as possible with samples. It takes time to create, but I feel that it's better to get the director on board very early on in terms of the sounds that I have in my head.

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I've always wanted to work with.

Got a chance to work with amazing and finest directors like Priyadarshan, Anurag Kashyap, Imtiaz Ali, Meghna Gulzar, Vipul Shah, Dibakar Banerjee, Kamal Haasan, etc.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Working on a film is different from working in an office. You spend 16-hour days together; you share stories and become really close. But, when you finish shooting, you don't see each other again.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.