Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas. If you can remember every idea that is yours in a script, as opposed to someone else's, then something is wrong.

You have to adjust to what your team needs and what you're able to do.

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.