S. S. Rajamouli Quotes

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.