Abhay Deol Quotes

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.