The World Motivation
When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films at that time.
“When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films at that time.”
— Karthik Subbaraj · Clue
When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films at that time.
For a cinematographer, every frame has to be important.
We considered a few Bollywood actors as well for the villain role in 'Jigarthanda,' but we finally zeroed in on Simha because we felt he would be the most unexpected person to play it. Had we cast someone popular, then it would have become predictable.
When I was working in Bangalore, short film making was fun - almost like a weekend getaway for me and my friends from the software industry.
Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats was.
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.
They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.
Cinema is a visual medium one has to communicate through visuals, and therefore, dialogues should be less.
There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.