Mani Ratnam Quotes

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I like the opportunity to make films.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

I made short films in school.

I always loved experimenting in film.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Film, I think, is my medium.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.