Quotes About Film

I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.

I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will come looking forward to an evening that is different from watching a film. That is the kind of crowd that goes to a theatre or a play and I am hoping to see many of them in Dubai.

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

I have always believed if the intention is right, it'll be a good film.

Whenever any person in the creative field does a film, they think it is going to be of good quality or this is something people will like. The intention is always positive.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

My intention is to do more films.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

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.

When I make a film about a woman, it is possible that my feminist politics surfaces somewhere but it is not with the intention of propagating feminism.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor's instinct of how to communicate something to us.

I just enjoy what I do - looking forward to going on a film set, being in front of the camera, interacting with many people. I'm fortunate to be living my dream.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be.

It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

When I work in a film like an actor, I do not interfere or try to use my seniority or impose anything on the filmmaker.