Sai Pallavi Quotes

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.

I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

It's never been my goal to do 'big' films because a big film in itself is not very interesting to me.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.

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

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good.

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

As a family, we'd watch films and talk about people on screen - what was good or bad and whether you believed them and their stories. I loved that.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I love films. It's really funny, actually. Like, I see a lot of smaller movies. But a lot of these big, epic films that everyone's like, 'You have to see,' I haven't watched yet.

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

If I like a particular character or story, I usually say yes to the film.