Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.

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

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

I try and let the film do the talking.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

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 discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

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.

It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

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

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!