Kiran Rao Quotes

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

I personally like to do independent films.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

Primarily, a festival is a platform to sell films that are not meant for the mainstream audience. Cultural exchange is also important aspect of a film festival.

When I was young, I went with my mum to see some really random independent films, which really spoke to me: 'My Beautiful Laundrette,' 'Secrets and Lies'... It wasn't all arthouse, though!

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.