Vijay Quotes

I have worked with some very great directors.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.

I have been lucky enough to work with people who inspire me, who I admire and respect, and who have made films - before working with me - that I continually return to over the years because they are so good.

I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.

There's a lot of directors I'd still love to work with - one of them is Spielberg, because he kind of started my career, and I've not worked with him yet.

If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.

I've worked with a lot of people who have a lot of integrity towards cinema.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I have worked with good directors, and I consider myself very lucky because I think that it is very important.

I've known Venkatesh Maha since 2015 and we often discuss several things related to cinema and filmmaking.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.