Quotes About Films

My aim is that each of my films should be on the top five or, at least, the top 10 lists of the year.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

I'm looking forward to do female-centric films.

From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing and it's everything.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.

If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance between comedy and drama. And they deal mainly with the clumsiness of humanity.

North-east films are still not on a national level. But 'Axone' is a mainstream film. I found the script very authentic and also very funny.

I like mainstream cinema. I like films that are definitely commercial. I try and stick to that as much as possible.

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

I want to do roles that are important for the story and not there for ornamental value or to just aid another character in the film which is often a 'friend's role' in mainstream films.

I haven't got the kind of films from mainstream cinema which I would have wanted. But then mainstream cinema has a different bunch of people who are happy working with each other, which is fine.

Maybe I should be making more mainstream films if I want to get some money.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn't know what I would make.

The simple, sweet films without the star power often manage to tell a better story.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.