Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

We are moving into a phase where what was once alternative cinema is becoming mainstream. I like being in that space.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.