Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

I would love to meet or work with Sofia Coppola. Or Wes Anderson or Spike Jonze. I'd love to meet them. The way they film, it's all so geometric.

Every love story or Hindi film has the same story, but what makes it different is the treatment it's given. Much depends on how it is stylised, how the characters are moulded, and how the story is treated.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Film is very condensed.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

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.