Rajkummar Rao Quotes

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.

Early on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn't done that I wouldn't have met Tim Busfield and if I hadn't met Tim Busfield, I wouldn't have met Aaron Sorkin. So Nerds II took me straight to the White House!

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.

I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

I like to just work with great directors.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.