Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

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

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

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.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

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

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

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.