Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I made short films in school.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

I took a film course in grade ten that made me want to direct, and I've always been making short films and home videos with my friends, so it's definitely something I wanna pursue as well.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.