Yami Gautam Quotes

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

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.

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

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

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.

In 'Stree', I had a great time working with the whole team and Dinu, being the producer and one of the most important people. And now we are doing another film together, and I'm sure there will be a couple of more films in the future.

On a film, you work with somebody for four months and it's wonderful, but commercials it's like catching up with someone for a beer except you happen to shoot something at the same time.

I've always admired how closely someone like C.V. Kumar works with the creative team to promote a film.

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.

There are so many amazing directors I would love to work with, like Christopher Nolan, who is a total pipe dream.

It's not just the actor who's responsible for a film becoming a hit. A whole lot of work and people are involved in it.

Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva are a team that you always want to be a part of.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

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

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

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.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

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.