Farhan Akhtar Quotes

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

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.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.