Kiran Rao Quotes

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

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 think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

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

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.