Shoojit Sircar Quotes

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at.

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

I don't make films for critics.

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.

I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.

You could probably ask anyone who loves Fincher films, and they couldn't answer why.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

I've scored all the movies that Jacques Audiard has directed. It's a long love story between us, trying to find a voice that would belong to his films only.