Rod Lurie Quotes

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

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.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

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

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

All actors are self-critical.