Aditi Rao Hydari Quotes

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.