Karan Patel Quotes

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

Initially, it took me time to realise that I am sharing screen space with Irrfan Khan. But when I started working with him, a lot of times I would end up laughing in a scene.

It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

I want to continue working with actors who truly enjoy the process of acting.

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.