Sushant Singh Rajput Quotes

If the script is not good, the film will not work.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

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.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

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

'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.