Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I love scenes with minimal dialogue.

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

Movies are too literal.

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

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

Because of 'Terminator 2,' you get not pigeonholed but circled as one of those guys who can understand their way through a movie like that and hold it down.

Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

I wanted to make an unusual superhero film for quite some time.

Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

Ever since I made the short film 'Black And White,' which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.

In my first-ever shot, there was a big shell that was dropped on my belly in slow motion. I even asked the director why we are doing it, and he said it would look beautiful... and I wondered, 'Really? But why and how?'

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.