Vikramaditya Motwane Quotes

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

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.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

I don't have a director's mind.

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

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

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

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I don't think there's any show that really escapes it: It's very rare that a creative producer stays with the show. As soon as the producer leaves, they cut the budget.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.

I have the soul of a director.