When you’re making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors’ availability. When you’re using big actors for small films, you’re in second or third position to the big monoliths.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

The public’s nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I’ve made several films that haven’t been shown.

The stakes are high on every film now because there’s the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People...

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and...

As long as you keep your budgets small, there’s a way of making films.

I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease...

I’d like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I couldn’t stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I didn’t go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that’s half of our market gone.

I don’t like to label films with a genre.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films… do films that...

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that’s why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they’re in love because really...

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I’m enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor – it’s my...

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can’t.

As in, I think ‘Badlands’ is one of the funniest films of all time: ‘Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened’ is one of the funniest...

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

As with instant replay, NFL Films’ use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

Right now, Texas doesn’t have an incentive to give filmmakers. (The Dallas movie) is a great example of what we’re losing and what we’re leaving on the table. And Dallas is just one picture. I...

I also don’t like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don’t like.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I’m continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he’s uncredited. He’s done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

In terms of negotiating a career – I’ve always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music...

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You’re in it together. To a degree that people don’t realize, documentary films – or at least the kind of documentary films I’m...

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.

‘Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no...

I look back, and I’ve got a couple of films, and I’m happy.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare...

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing...

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.

I turned down a lot of films.

And the people I’m best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s...

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

I make films about working class people.