Quotes from Priyadarshan

If you want to sell a film, you have to make it in an exaggerated way. Otherwise, you have to make it for your own satisfaction.

Mohanlal has nothing left to prove. He has won many awards.

See, I am an ardent fan of David Lean. I cannot do a shot like David Leans' in a Malayalam film because the budget does not permit me. Those dreams, I mean the glossy dreams of mine, can be fulfilled only in Hindi films.

I don't put seriousness in Bollywood movies. Because in Bollywood, people want entertainment even if it has no meaning.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

I feel bored if I sit for 10 days at home. I take only 30 days off for my family in a year.

As for 'Garam Masala,' everybody knows what kind of film it is. It's the type where you keep your brains at home.

I think casting in a comedy is all important.

Romance on the screen happens even with people who do not have off-screen chemistry. To bring that out from them is my job.

I was so sure 'Doli Saja Ke Rakhna' would do well, but when it didn't I lapsed into depression.

I have a fascination for cartoons. No matter how many times 'Tom and Jerry' fall, you never complain, and watch it again.

It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.

Mohanlal and I have done nearly 40 films together, many of them comedies.

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

In spite of not taking big stars, I have survived in the industry.

I don't think majority of the audience associate Mohanlal with a creative, genius artiste; it's just that they see themselves in him.

Every director will dream of doing films in Hollywood. I want to show my talents there, too.

In 'Snehithiye,' I adopted a Hitchcockian approach on the premise that a woman's only friend after marriage is her husband.

With 'Kanchivaram,' I have tried to study why the dream of an equalitarian society was defeated by an individual's aspirations.

A lot of times, projects happen just to influence the distributors or buyers.

Experiments don't always pay.

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read a lot of comics.

Never make your actors do comical faces. Let them be serious and let the situations make people laugh.

How many remakes are really successful? From 100, 98 are failures. That's because those films are remade without taking into consideration the sensibilities of the audience. I don't do that.