Randeep Hooda Quotes

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

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

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

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

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!

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.