Varun Dhawan Quotes

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

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

Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people let you do what you want to do.

I like to produce my own movies.

'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to make and the story I wanted to tell.

I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it or not at all.

I make the joke, all the time, that if you have the word "man" and a number in the title, like Batman 2, Spider-Man 2 or Iron Man 12, you'll get it made. The kind of movies I make, studios don't make them. I've made a lot of movies, and at Castle Rock, we've made 125 movies. None of them get made at a studio. I've got to scrounge around for money, every time. I just like to tell stories. I'm a storyteller, so I want the most people to see it.

The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative