Sai Pallavi Quotes

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

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what's mine and what's other people's is controlled by me. It isn't even fair to talk about.

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

'I' is bound to have an impact on my career.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

To make a name for myself, I feel it's important to do that before I go anywhere else. Impact have given me the platform and the exposure to do that.

I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don't have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.

I don't want to be known as a guy who's gonna get decisions.

I stay out of typecasting ruts.

Doing less films is sometimes intentional, but sometimes things just don't work out.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

The move to turn a director was a very important decision and totally uncalled for, especially after my experience of 27 years as a producer.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career.

Some artists don't want to be involved in anything outside the performing. They'll say, 'You make the decisions and tell me what to do.' I want to be in on all of it. If there's a meeting where commitments are made that I have to carry out, I want to be there.

I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that way.

Obviously spending my teenage years in music, and in popular music, I wanted to continue this career, but in a way that allows me to dictate it and create it myself as opposed to relying on third party or more corporate decision making.

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

I felt when I was gambling that the house always wins, and it was always like, how can I become the house? But when you're a band, you are the house because you can write the songs, you can wear your own clothes, you can pick where your show is. I can choose my own cards, basically.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.