Radhika Pandit Quotes

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

I really like working with people again and again, and I don't know why everyone doesn't do it. Because you already know them, and you know how good they are.

When you meet people you've previously worked with, it's definitely comfortable.

My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.

I'm very close to Jay Sekulow. We know each other very well. Trust Jay.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around.

If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident.

I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.