Ram Charan Quotes

I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.

The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

I definitely have to know every detail of a script and analyse its potential before I think further because if the director is the captain, then the script is the ship.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

The only thing that works is a good script!

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

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.