Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

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 love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.

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'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

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.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

Making a film is a challenge.

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

I hate making TV documentaries.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.