Soni Razdan Quotes

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'

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

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and we realized that he or I could do a lot better.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance.

The mill-owners obtained their wealth by overworking and by defrauding the factory children. They were praying people, but took care their work people should neither have time nor strength to pray. These hypocrites pretended it was necessary to keep these poor infant slaves at this excruciating labour just to preserve them from "bad company" and to prevent them learning "bad habits".

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

To make a film with Rajinikanth will be a dream come true for any director, and I'm not an exception. But I always believe that it's the story that should drive you. If I come up with something like that, and if the story inspires me, I would be happy to work with him.

I've never been given an opportunity to direct, but man, I would love to try my hand at that.

I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.