Varun Sharma Quotes

I did loads of jobs all the way through college, just for a bit of money in my pocket. There were some tough jobs, but I was lucky enough I enjoyed doing them. It was okay.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

I learned a lot while I was ACing and gripping for other DPs as I was coming up.

We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

I have worked with some great directors.

Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren't so cut-and-dried... My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give these young creatives and young creative hustlers the opportunity to leave their fingerprint on the world.

I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.

Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.

After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.

My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.