Sonu Sood Quotes

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

I want to make movies like 'The Upside of Anger,' 'Maria Full of Grace,' old-school films like 'Some Kind of Wonderful' or 'Vision Quest': movies you remember songs and lines from.

Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through.

I don't think that people think of Marvel in the same way that people think of Pixar. Because Pixar is story-orientated, and they think of these guys as epic movie orientated. But they're story-orientated. That's the secret.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I like working in television because it's an evolving story that you tell. That's also one of the things I don't like about it, too. Because sometimes it's hard, and just when I think I've nailed something, it changes or we have to change it or change the joke or the character is evolving in a way that I don't have control over.

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.