Barun Sobti Quotes

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

I love directing.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

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.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

My final ambition is to turn director.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'