Quotes About Films

I really love independent films. There's something so determined about the people who work on them.

You cannot make a living doing independent films.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels like 'all for one and one for all.' It can be really challenging but also really rewarding because sometimes you have to do so much stuff in a day, but I like that challenge, and you make such amazing friends.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films 'Raincoat' and 'Chokher Bali' and I had always admired his body of work.

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

I am definitely trying not to take films that are mostly about dude problems, not because I don't think they're worthy problems, but there are a lot of people who will take those.

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

I never try and send messages through my feature films; it's always naturally woven in and comes through on its own, as that's the way I think about society.

The life of King Jeongjo has previously inspired many films and TV dramas. 'The King's Wrath' will show the tough and charismatic sides of the king that have been undermined in past works.

Mahesh doesn't show his own anxieties when his films are up for release, but I become a nervous wreck.

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

There is a world and life beyond films. My charity work keeps me in touch with that world.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.