Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Ram Gopal Varma - Page 2

When I believe in an actor, I believe there is something in that actor.

The reason I make more films is that I work all the time without taking a break, and I enjoy it.

Films like 'Satya,' 'Company' needed a pan-Indian audience. The affinity for Hindi film and subjects was there.

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that - that is how they measure success. I don't do it like that.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.

Now a lot of people tell me that 'Daud' was ahead of its times. But when it came out, it was panned more than any of my films.

I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them.

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

I think a lot before tweeting. I show it like I don't, but I do. Sometimes I don't mean it, sometimes I mean it, and sometimes I like to provoke a reaction from people. I enjoy reactions from them.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

Everyone knows about Amitabh Bachchan being a legendary actor, and I had this sense of arrogance that I can make him do what I want. But what he did on locations completely blew me away. I realised that I understand the quality of performances even more after seeing him perform.

I don't think I take risks. People think I do, but I don't. In fact, I think conventional-formula filmmakers take more risks than me.

I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.

I think every star was a new actor at one point of time.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.

I don't think cinema is big or small. It's just good or bad.

I would say that if a man like Balasaheb Thackeray can exist, 'Sarkar' can exist.

Romantic films are not a genre I would choose.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It's a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

Films are all I know. I wouldn't know what to do with a day off.

I like to see women getting drenched in the rain. So to that extent, I like 'Barsaat.'

'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.

Many people don't understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong - but you don't realise it till the film is made.

I have always put the same effort in all my films irrespective of their outcome.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

You are likely to make more mistakes with a light-hearted film than a serious one.

Of course i was in Love with Sridevi

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar