Quotes About Director

I always want to work with a good director who's backed by excellent producers.

Abhishek Chaubey has been in my bucket list for a long time. When he approached me, I thought it's for a film he is producing, but I never expected my fourth film to be an Abhishek Chaubey film.

'Newton' is a black comedy, a social satire. Amit Masurkar is directing the movie, and Drishyam films is producing. Rajkummar Rao is in the movie. I am playing a very important character. It is a very interesting project.

The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.

If the packaging is good - the actors, director and producer - then it will work, even if the product is not good.

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

I have always admired Meghna Gulzar's work, and getting to work with her and the Dharma Productions is like a dream come true.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

There are some moments in your life and in your career when you meet a movie and the director that suddenly just turns you to another dimension.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.