Tena Desae Quotes

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

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

If I read the right script, if that script needs $5 million, if that script needs $50 million, I don't care. If I read a project that's beautiful, that I really want to make, whatever it needs, it needs.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I really love independent films. There's something so determined about the people who work on them.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

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.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.