Amit Trivedi Quotes

If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue - in fact I'm sure I want to continue - to stay in the realm of independent films with directors and writers who are just emerging with new ideas and a different vision that hasn't really been expressed yet.

I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.

India uses Bollywood, rather cinema, to tell its stories. It is one of the largest filmmaking nations in the world and so your talents get to tell stories about politics, love and drama through films.

I am interested in Bollywood. Everyone wants to do bigger and better work. I also want to do good work.

Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

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

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can conceive stories, write screenplays, etc. That's better for me.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

If Madhur Bhandarkar makes a movie tomorrow, people will expect him to do something like 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate!' Similarly, it takes time for filmmakers to break that stereotype and attempt something new - it is difficult for filmmakers to be versatile in Bollywood.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.