Nithya Menen Quotes

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I love making movies.

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.

Every movie I do, regardless of how they fare at the box office, excites me.

I did my first film when I was 14. I did not take films seriously. It was just a time pass for me then.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

I was 19 or 20 when I was confused whether to take up films as a career. At that juncture, I enrolled in an acting workshop and then eventually realised I was destined to be in films.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.