Keerthy Suresh Quotes

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

I was really competitive with myself.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.