Sonu Sood Quotes

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Once I finished writing the script, I couldn't find my Pandi. It was actually little difficult to cast for the role. One fine day, when I was shooting for 'Vada Chennai', Raj Kiran's name just popped into my head.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.