Vicky Kaushal Quotes

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

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

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

When you go to set, they just go, 'OK, let's see what you guys do!' The camera moves around what you initially feel.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.