Prabhas Quotes

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.