Tamannaah Quotes

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

Many times, what's in the script doesn't make it to the film these days, and when you choose a job, you take it based on genre and whom you're going to work with, if you believe in them.

The combo of a great story and good director works for me.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

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 is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.