Quotes About Films

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

I do indie films for the sense of fulfillment and to achieve my goals as an artist.

Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.

When I was doing indie films, it wasn't cool and hip.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

When compared to other industries, there are very few promotional activities done for Kannada films.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's not exclusively film. It's infuriating to see it in film. But my being in film changes things.

We are Disney, in a sense. When you've been there for 20 years, there's a certain heart and soul to one of those films, and you inhabit that to a certain degree. So if it feels true to you, then your audience will hopefully go for it.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.

If Hollywood can make films on insects and make big money, why can't we make films on Punjabi culture?

Saroj Kumar is plagued with insecurity about how he can survive in the industry, what with new, better looking actors coming up, and experimental films taking over his once popular box-office success formulas.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would be acting in films.

I'm very passionate about making good films. I want to make good films for the whole world because I think it is one of the biggest inspirations for society.

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.