Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Nelson McCormack on 'Killing Kennedy' was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort.

'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.

I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.

We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.