Quotes About Director

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

The move into adult comedy wasn't so much moving away from 'The Wonder Years' as expanding myself as a director.

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the writer, and we take it on from there.

After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,' 'Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu,' 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' and 'Student Of The Year,' among others.

Ryan Murphy's a brilliant director to work with who's very fun and creative.

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.

When I came to Mumbai, I was working behind the scenes for 10 long years. Back then, music video budgets were insignificant and I had no assistant directors or art directors for most of the songs I directed.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.