Hansika Motwani Quotes

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

Yes, I would surely like to work with Neha in a family oriented or a romantic-comedy, or in any Punjabi film.

As far as I am getting interesting projects to work in, it doesn't matter whether it's Bollywood, South or Gujarati. The script is the hero for me.

I would like to work with everyone in Bollywood.

Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.

Karan Johar is absolutely an amazing director. I dream to work with Karan.

Film was nothing like television; there was a craft to it, and I realized how much hard work was needed. It was not some mindless, two-bit job that only requires you to look good.

I always try and do good films.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.