Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Priyadarshan - Page 2

I am comfortable in Tamil.

'Hungama' leaves all problems behind and just lets the audience have a good laugh.

It is a lot more difficult to make a typical Bollywood film than a realistic film.

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

I feel it's easier to scare or thrill people than to make them laugh.

In Kerala, people are more educated, so you can have subtlety in Malayalam films.

I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.

Mohanlal has nothing left to prove. He has won many awards.

Realistic non-commercial films offer you a lot more liberty as a director than a usual film.

It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.

I emphasize the technical aspects in all my films, not just Hindi.

In front of the camera, I find it difficult. As far as the actors are concerned, it is easy for them to do it but not for me.

Many times when you request an actor to do a film, they show respect to you, offer you coffee and nicely they will avoid you because maybe they don't trust you.

People expect a lot from a commercial director. It's not right to always expect another 'Viraasat' from me.

Ideally, I like to make my films within 30-40 days, because if it takes longer than that, everyone involved loses interest.

I don't think majority of the audience associate Mohanlal with a creative, genius artiste; it's just that they see themselves in him.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

Mohanlal and I have done nearly 40 films together, many of them comedies.

In 'Snehithiye,' I adopted a Hitchcockian approach on the premise that a woman's only friend after marriage is her husband.

In Hindi film industry, the maximum one can do is try and make a film like 'Badhaai Ho' or 'Andhadhun,' but if I want to make something of the level of 'Kanchivaram' it is impossible. If I will make that kind a film, it will have no traction.

I've done so many genres of films in my career; I've done 91 films so far. But never a thriller. That's how 'Oppam' happened.

I make films for money and fame. But I made 'Kanjeevaram' for recognition.

I want to appeal to family audiences, I would never want to alienate women and kids.

When I went to Bollywood and used to give actors instructions, many of them would tell me that I am acting out exactly like Mohanlal. I learnt from one of the best actors in the country and I am proud of that.

I think casting in a comedy is all important.

When people tell me that my films make them smile, I feel like I'm doing a social service by making these light-hearted comedy movies.

I love cricket. Thankfully, I didn't make a career out of it. Otherwise today I'd have been working in a bank.

Mohanlal can play anything, and it's not 'playing' - it's becoming the character.

I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.

I don't believe in Rs. 100 crore club, I only believe that the producer should make money.

I've been a big dreamer from my childhood.

I felt shaky, then 'Hungama' worked, and I signed films left, right and centre to kill my insecurity.

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

All directors from the South go back home as failures... I didn't want that to happen to me. So, I became a factory, determined to produce successful goods.

I was so sure 'Doli Saja Ke Rakhna' would do well, but when it didn't I lapsed into depression.

One cannot survive in Bollywood without focusing on entertainment.

Most of Hindi films I made are remakes of my own films.

Bollywood movies ignore screenplay, if you notice whichever movie is a hit has an interesting screenplay.

With 'Kanchivaram,' I have tried to study why the dream of an equalitarian society was defeated by an individual's aspirations.