Prithviraj Sukumaran Quotes

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.