Kunal Khemu Quotes

I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

The best phase for an actor is when he or she gets to choose what they want to play. Sometimes you do a film because the unit is good, the company is fantastic, and the intention is well placed.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

Whenever I like a character or a script, I take up the project and leave the rest to the audience.

I never had a boundary as an actor and I am open to interesting scripts.

I am always open to any film from any place, given the role and the script is interesting.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, 'This is what I'll do next.' I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.