Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

While working in Bangalore, I was making short films.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

I like the opportunity to make films.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.