Quotes About Filmmaking

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

It is always great to work with Vishal Bhardwaj and his team as they regularly come up with such good work.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

We should just focus on people getting into the phase of making films, and seeing how and where will they release later, depending on the situation.

I have come to make Hindi films to cater to a certain kind of audience, which looks for entertainment. I feel my strength here as a director will fail if I ever try something experimental.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

I am ecstatic that 'KPC' was a commercial hit and was critically acclaimed. The 60 days we shot for it were the best days of my life. I still get goosebumps when I think of them.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

My films like 'Shahjahan,' 'Youth' and 'Pokkiri' were major commercial hits.

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.