I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.
I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.
I think with every character I get, there's an approach that's appropriate. I feel like my own job is to interpret what there is in the film and show that through me, sort of really channel myself through the role. If I feel I need to get into it to the point where I don't leave it, then I will.
I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.
Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out.
There was a time when I feel that I need to take time to know more about the industry, the workings of it. I was doing my modeling, which I really wanted to do at the time. So that's why even my entry into films was later than people expected.
Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.
I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
