Vetrimaaran Quotes

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.

It takes two years to make a good film.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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.

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

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.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

I'm anxious to make another film.

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.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.