Storyboarding Quotes

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Typically, whenever you're envisioning how you're going to shoot something, you have a location or a set that you're going to build, and it's going to be built to specifications.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

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

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.

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.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of them is a fantasy-adventure, while the other is a thriller. I've assisted my brother Selvaraghavan, who's a well-known director in Tamil cinema. I've also made short films.

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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

The Coen brothers: Of all the directors I've worked with, they're the only ones who have given me the storyboards attached to the script. It was very cool for me, because I knew when I was in close-up or if it was far away, and it also made me know that anything that happened in the edit wasn't personal. Because they edit their own movies, so they were editing it as they went.

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

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

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