People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn’t possibly choose.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I am happy with all the films I’ve done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it’s being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling,...

I don’t watch much TV or films, but I’ve watched Cameron Diaz.

I personally like to do independent films.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was ‘Event Horizon.’

[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.

I loved films of the ’70s with those antihero protagonists who you don’t know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

I don’t think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I don’t see scarey films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I’d prefer doing films where you don’t have to leave your brains behind.

European films were what it was about for me – the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can’t really find in American films.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

The angel said, “I like black-and-white films more than color because they’re more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It’s sort of like prayer.

You have to want to be in the company of those you’re making films about.

It’s not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like ‘Nippu,’ ‘Devudu Chesina Manushulu’ and ‘Sarostaru’ which were really bad. But, ‘Veera’ and ‘Dharuvu’...

One of my favorite films is ‘Dumb and Dumber.’

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade....

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I’m a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don’t need to act to feel myself alive.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

I do like fantasy films.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Honestly speaking, I don’t like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like ‘Dhoom,’ I might say… ‘It...

My favorite types of movies definitely aren’t thrillers, but at the same time you can’t deny the genius of Hitchcock’s films.

There’s only so much you can do with the material you’re given, … A lot of films are very male-oriented, but this is a male-dominated industry. Let’s not lie. I don’t care what character I...

I’ve been directing for 25 years almost, and I’ve only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

The financing of my films has always been international.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things...

If I see my films described as ‘quirky’ or, even worse, ‘snarky’ one more time, I’m going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I’ve labored under the conceit that they were...

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film… at least in Hollywood studio films.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don’t. We cringe away from it.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

I’m part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

One of my favorite films is ‘Late Spring’ by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you’re very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ with Claude Rains that was...

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.