Mammootty Quotes

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.