Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

I watch mostly independent films.

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

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

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

I personally like to do independent films.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

I just make films that attract me.

There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.

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

My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it because we love cinema, because we are passionate about the content and new ways of storytelling.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

I don't want to do only blockbusters.

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.