Pankaj Kapur Quotes

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

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 think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

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

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

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.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

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.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

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.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.

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

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

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