Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

I love commercial cinema.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

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.

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

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

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.

Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.

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.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.