Lars Mikkelsen Quotes

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

I always wanted to design for films.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

I wish I had gone to a film school.

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

I never made a good movie.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.