Vijay Krishna Acharya Quotes

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I make movies based on gut.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

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

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.

I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.

Armaan has a simple approach and understands what a composer wants. I tell him, 'Give the song your own vibe but I will still come and fight with you and change it.'

When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You're allowed to create.

I go by my instinct in selecting scripts for my banner. Some times it works and some times it does not.

When 'Mohenjo Daro' came to me, I decided to go by my gut instincts. If something big comes up, you need to give it that time and effort.

I cast very much from the gut, and I think I was very lucky to be able to get... many amazing international... people that I had always really wanted to work with.