R. Madhavan Quotes

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

I love filmmakers.

I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

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.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.