Quotes About Influence

I'm not finding fault or blaming the industry, but the heroes have always dominated the film industry.

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

I was brought up on American films.

I am what I am only because of films.

Not all films are going to go down in history.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

We should never have any political or religious organization filter our news.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.