Quotes About Innovation

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

The best films come about through experimentation.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.