Rajiv Menon Quotes

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

A film sells feelings.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

My goal is to always try to make you feel something, whether that's humor or sadness or excitement, and to try to manipulate screen space.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.