R. Madhavan Quotes

I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

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.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.

Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.