Radhika Apte Quotes

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

I'm a filmmaker and I intend to continue making films of all kinds, in any manner, shape, or form - short or long.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.

I want to make movies that I would want to watch as a fan.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.