Ali Fazal Quotes

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.