Shoojit Sircar Quotes

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it.

It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel. You can't afford to faff around; you can't indulge. You have to get to the point.

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

'Dhadak' has its own individuality and a story that deserves to be told to a larger audience.

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas.

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

'Modern Family' is unique in that it's telling the story of three different families, which is a huge amount of characters to service.

It is very difficult to make something like slice-of-life interesting. I don't think many people have done the slice-of-life dramas as good as TVF has done it.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

I just respond to the stories I'm being asked to tell.

Every character comes with its own challenges.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.