Farhan Akhtar Quotes

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

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.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.