Top 33 Sudha Kongara Quotes

I revisit stories and see if they are still living and breathing, because if you do a film you live with that story for another year. I can’t do a film in six months and scoot.

It’s easier to lose weight and have a physique of a 19-year-old, but it’s not easy to look 19.

I’ve been in the industry for 17 years. I am over that phase of wanting my first watch, car etc.

There’s so much drama in the lives of boxers. It’s a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

Thanks to the magic word ‘success,’ which changes anyone‘s fortunes for good, I am not the same Sudha as I was seven years ago.

A director is a director. Man or woman should matter little.

After watching ‘Pagal Nilavu’ I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

Every year, I go to Suriya’s house to tie Rakhi on Raksha Bandhan. On one such day, he asked me if I have a script in hand and that’s when I gave him the half-completed script of ‘Soorarai Pottru.’

I loved Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty;’ my favorite films are ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Kill Bill: Volume 2’… I dig Tarantino’s works.

I interviewed around 20 women boxers and all of them told me they learnt boxing to get a job. At one point, I asked one boxer if she had the passion for sports. She told me ‘put some food in my belly and I’ll talk about passion.’

While working on ‘Yuva,’ I wanted Suriya to be the best among all the three actors in the film. I have always loved him as an actor.

Our country is one of the youngest in the world. Our youngsters need to be told inspirational stories.

If at all I make films till I die, I want to make ones that last.

Mani is not just my Godfather. He is almost like a father to me.

It’s criminal to make a film and not see it release.

I used to be a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola.

I have been a huge fan of Gautham; I remember him editing ‘Kaakha Kaakha’ and I used to pray for it to become a superhit.

Each story in ‘Paava Kadhaigal’ explores human relationships from a perspective that it has never been looked at before – how far would one go in the name of honor.

Even now I stay in a small village called Nanmangalam near Pallavaram. The place is so calm and beautiful and it is close to the city too. So I have no problems in living there.

I can’t make a movie where I can’t learn. I’d die of boredom.

I love Aparna Sen. I’ve watched ’36 Chowringhee Lane‘ too many times to count.

I myself have been an underdog. I never got anything easy in the film industry.

I’ve lived in Chennai from childhood. But, honestly, I didn’t know the Royapuram side at all.

I have this huge dossier on sports that I had collected over 10 years. Every human interest story has been cut out and filed away.

The traits I picked from my conversation with Captain Gopinath was his honesty. He was completely possessed at each stage by what he was doing. When he was in the army, he was possessed there. He was possessed when he started Udupi hotel or while doing agriculture. He is a perfectionist and he is very impatient.

The other day, someone told me that all my life I will be telling the stories of underdogs. Their stories always appeal to me.

Cooking is my vice.

There is a cheat inside everyone.

I’d love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

You can never predict success. You can never predict another person liking what you are doing. But if you are an interesting storyteller and if you strike the right chord, perhaps you will be understood.

We are a film-crazy family.

There is a deep sense of satisfaction in knowing that you know how to do your job and can go on to the next film with confidence.

It really feels special to know that ‘Irudhi Suttru’ has been selected to be screened at Tokyo Film Festival. I see this honor as an impetus to continue doing my good work.