Marsai Martin Quotes

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

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

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

I'd like to have a go at directing.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

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.

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

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I wanted to try directing.

On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that's how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot - the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I prefer working behind the camera.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.