Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Ram Gopal Varma
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.
My greatest dream is to make a film on 'The Fountainhead,' which I have been restraining from doing because it is so much in the mind, and I am yet to be able to decode that.
I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
My driver shops for me; he selects my clothes. That is why my driver and I wear the same clothes.
I don't think I have the patience required to undertake projects as huge as 'Baahubali.' You need to spend a lot of time and years to make something empowering like that.
I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.
My favourite virtue is not having any.
I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in ghosts.
Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.
'D' is about a guy who starts off somewhere, and he's a very thinking kind of a guy. He's not an emotional person; he doesn't react to situations. Instead, he's virtually choreographing the situations. So it's a development of a character.
The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.
I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?
First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.
Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.
I always had a fair share of hits and flops.
I like people who have clarity about their work.
Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.
I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.
A film sells feelings.
My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film 'Shiva.' I used to walk from Nagarjuna's office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live, and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi's house from outside her gate.
I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.
Stars work because of familiarity. They fill theatres because audiences know who they are. There is a brand equity. But there are films strong enough to not need stars, or films that should not be made with stars at all, where only fresh faces will do. So I make the decisions accordingly.
Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.
I don't believe in gratitude.
Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.
'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.
To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.
Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.
When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.
'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.
Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.
In the business of entertainment, either I am able to create an effect that impresses people or not.
Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.
The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.
In Telugu, I have 'Bejawada Rowdilu,' a movie on the gang war culture in Vijayawada.
I make movies on the subjects that excite me.
Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.
I never think of a film after I finish it.
Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.
The shelf life of a specific film has decreased while the number of films required to fill multiplex cinemas has increased.
Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.
I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.
Since everyone has a mouth, everyone will have an opinion.
Basically, I am an anti-social person.
When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.
The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect.
I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.
I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my cell phone, and I suddenly saw a message that Sridevi is no more... I thought that either it's a nightmare or a hoax, and I went back to sleep.
The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.
All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.
Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.
I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.
If 'Bhoot' was called 'Man Ke Rishte,' no one would be interested. The title is a very essential part of a film. It subconsciously prepares the audience as to what they can expect.
Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.
I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can't have all of them for myself.
It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.
I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.
The thing about audiences is that we can't generalise them. It's very unfair.
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