Quotes About Films

I've done more than 65 films. I don't count them anymore. The first 10 you count and then you stop.

I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they're probably a couple of the best films I've ever done.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

Films cannot change anybody's life. That's a load of crap.

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't feel the need to work with the super established, top-tier directors that are out there.

Actors and actresses have done a lot of films with their legs, with their arms, with the whole crew and the camera. Why shouldn't they be as good as a first-assistant director who has made three or four films? They've done it with their body!

I don't make films for critics.

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.

I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like.

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

Usually, the worst films become cult films.

It is my dream to get international acclaim. In the current scheme of things you need not go anywhere else because great films are being made in Malayalam.

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

In Bollywood, they've got their systems in place. It's a monster machine that's churning out, like, 400 films a year, consistently. They're able to efficiently process things.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I don't make tacky films.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There's a reason to action in my films.

Puthagam' can be tagged as a complete family entertainer, and the reason I call it the same is because I always wanted to make films that I can watch with my entire family.

We know what kind of music people want to listen and we are doing the same with films. We know what kind of stories people want to see. Earlier people had tagged us that T-Series only does musicals but now that label has gone away.

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.