Quotes from Ram Gopal Varma

Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It's a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.

Of course i was in Love with Sridevi

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.

I don't think I have the patience required to undertake projects as huge as 'Baahubali.' You need to spend a lot of time and years to make something empowering like that.

'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

Since everyone has a mouth, everyone will have an opinion.

The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

I think a lot before tweeting. I show it like I don't, but I do. Sometimes I don't mean it, sometimes I mean it, and sometimes I like to provoke a reaction from people. I enjoy reactions from them.

Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.

The shelf life of a specific film has decreased while the number of films required to fill multiplex cinemas has increased.

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.

First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

The thing about audiences is that we can't generalise them. It's very unfair.

I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.