Kay Kay Menon Quotes

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I have the soul of a director.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different.

The combo of a great story and good director works for me.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.