Vetrimaaran Quotes

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the same time you're watching their performance, and making sure the lights are in the right place, and if the person is wearing the right wardrobe. All these things are going on in your head.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.