Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. I enjoyed the whole process so much, and I'd love to do more action films.
I like films that are about people and real, and honest films that are authentic depictions of real-world problems.
Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.
I have grown up watching Bollywood films, watching Shah Rukh Khan's films. I am happy that I worked with him.
I love rom-coms. Any will do. Films such as 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' or 'Funny Face' with Audrey Hepburn.
I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.
I was offered my first film right after my 10th board exams. Back then, I didn't even know they made films in the South. Films, I thought, were either in Hindi or English.
I will only do family-friendly films or television. They don't have to necessarily be Christian films, but I want to be in things that I'm comfortable having my children and husband watch. They come first in my life, not the film industry.
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.
I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be how could it be cooler?
It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.
I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.
Whenever I used to watch Hollywood films, I used to feel, when would Tollywood make such films?
I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.
Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.
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 have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
As much as I love to do commercial films, a touching romantic film like Mani Ratnam's 'Geethanjali' will satiate my creative appetite.
I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.
Big films help your reach a wider audience, and doing independent films keeps your artistic side happy.
I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.
Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.
The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.
I am known by my performance, so neither do big films need me nor do I big films.
Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.
I love Cronenberg so much, especially the films he was doing in the mid to late '80s and early '90s, like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Dead Ringers'.
I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.
I grew up on a staple of films where I saw actors like Waheeda Rehman, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi playing very powerful parts in films.
I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.
My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it.
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.
And I had never thought I'd get to work with a Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He is the master of period films. He makes everything with so much love.
I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.
Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I was planning to take. I am into films but I know my Plan B is ready, just in case.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.
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