Karthi Quotes

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'