Suriya (Saravanan Sivakumar) Quotes
From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!
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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow.
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It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.
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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.
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I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it
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I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area. Voice actors are all too often presented with a wad of XL sheets, no proper character notes, context or reference and are just expected to perform.
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From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.
