Kiran Rao Quotes

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

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

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

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

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

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.