Balachandra Menon Quotes

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

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.

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

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

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.