Ali Fazal Quotes

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I like very much to do movies.

I had the greatest time of my life making 'Saw 3.' More fun than '2' for sure.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.