Asrani Quotes

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

When I do a film, I follow the director.

When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.

I knew exactly what I wanted out of my actors - the film stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles - and how each shot should look. A large part of 'Lootera' has been shot under tough conditions.

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

'Oppam' is more of a director's movie, especially because I play a visually-challenged hero in it. The character doesn't have a perspective, and so cameras aren't placed like how they are usually done in other movies. The angles and the way the scenes are captured are different.

I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That's my challenge as an actor.

If you're shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn't want to look at the camera.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is what I did. The director for 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' did not want that at all.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

Abhishek Chaubey has improved my craft, as I learnt so much on set.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.