Nana Patekar Quotes

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

I love making movies.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.