Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

At the end of the day everyone has his own style of making a film and add the kind of ingredients which he feels would be good enough to entice audiences.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.

I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

RGV, as a filmmaker, is very smart.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

My personal fave is 'The Japanese Wife', because I think I achieved a lot of what I wanted to do. I wanted that Japanese minimalism in the film, which I managed to get somewhat.