Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

I just want to work on good scripts.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

After I read the story of 'Dangal' and before the film released, I called director Nitish Tiwari asking him if he had any good script. He told me to wait for some time. So we had three-four sittings, and this film, 'Chhichhore,' came to him. The film did not have superstars, but I felt that this is the script that needs to be told.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

I never approach an actor till I have finished the script.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.