Karthi Quotes

I like to just work with great directors.

I've been very fortunate to work with a lot of directors who understand that actors need to feel empowered in order to really do their job.

I worked with Michael Goode back in 2009. We had done a short film together where I was the actor and he was the director. We got on well and I always remember that being the one of the first acting jobs I did.

I do a film only when I feel I will be comfortable with the set-up and other members of the team.

Working with Rajamouli and Karan is home ground for me now, having worked with them for such a long time.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much fun. In 'Think Like a Man,' I have a very small part. They told me it wasn't a big budget, but I don't care about any of that. I'll do it for free simply because I love being on the set with other creative people.

I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.