Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

It takes two years to make a good film.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.