Vikram Bhatt Quotes

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.