Vikram Bhatt Quotes

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.