Keerthy Suresh Quotes

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

I have worked with some great directors.

F. Gary Gray, I think, is one of the best directors I've ever worked with in my life, and I'd love to work with him again.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I have the most respect for Rick. You're always going to see a Shameik Moore and Rick Famuyiwa film.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I am lucky that I have worked with some wonderful directors so far - Madhur Bhandarkar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, among others.

I am very pleased to be working with director Woo.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Every actor wants to direct.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.