When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.
You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer.
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
Today people remember me for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander.' The film is the most memorable thing for me in my life.
I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.
Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.
You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.
I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.
As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be a choreographer and a director.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.