Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.
Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
You want your film to be seen by the largest audience and stars help in facilitating that. Star-power does work.
You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.
You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.
You learn on every film so much.
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.
You have to be honest about what kind of films you want to make.
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.
You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.
You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
