Farhan Akhtar Quotes

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

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

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.

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

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

I think about a lot of my favorite directors, and I think about their first films, and I have great admiration for the earthiness of those films.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.