Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

Before 'The Walking Dead,' a few of the jobs before that were just like, 'Ugh.' I try and make everything as creative as possible, even when I get the script and can't imagine what I'm going to do with it.

I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

Every time I choose to do a movie, I make the decision because of what I think I can learn from it.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part of good stories. The only thing that has changed is now I have options of good stories to choose from.

Whenever I like a character or a script, I take up the project and leave the rest to the audience.

I don't mind doing genre roles as long as they offer me something substantial.

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

I do not differentiate between a commercial and an indie project as long as there is a strong subject and the character in the script is relatable.

My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.