Sudha Murty Quotes

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

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.

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.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.