I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
Even bigger directors like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma have faced flak, that doesn't mean they've shied away from filmmaking.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.
In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
