Peter Landesman Quotes

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

I've always wanted to work with the best directors. Directors lead you to the best material and thus the best actors.

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

I will direct films be it my own productions or outside. It's not like I am here only to direct Salman.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

The thing about TV is that it's great work for directors because the responsibility is not ours at all. In a movie, you choose a movie, and everybody points his or her finger at you afterward. It doesn't matter how much influence you had on the script, how much decision you had, or the fact that you didn't have final cut.

I did not know much about cinema and acting.

Shooting for Aamar Pratigya' was a completely delightful experience for the 25 days I shot for the film.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

When a movie is made, you toy with many ideas, and a prequel to 'Dabangg' is one of them.

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

As an actor, I can only do my job well, but in a movie there are a lot of other things that matter too - like how it is edited and promoted and the works. Those are not in my hand.

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have to put in an extra effort.

I actually have a movie that I was a supporting role in that I'm really proud of called 'Sun Dogs.'

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

The idea of 'Roja' was with me for seven years before I made it.