Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.