Rahul Dev Quotes

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I'd love to direct more.

I would love to produce a film.