Vijay Deverakonda Quotes

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.