Divya Dutta Quotes

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

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

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

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.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

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.

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

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

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.