Nana Patekar Quotes

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

The only answer to the question 'Which is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies?' is, there is no worst 'Star Wars' movie. There - one might be the least amazing and fantastic, but there's none that is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies.

I don't think that a film should be known as 'male-centric' or 'female-centric,' but it should be known for the story. That would be really nice, and viable, too.

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.

'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many accolades, but then I watched it and was won over.

Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.

I don't take others' views seriously because that isn't a fact. I do respect everyone's view, but I am not affected.

The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

I choose movies with caution.

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

One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow.

One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.

With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

The first film I watched was 'Soldier,' and then 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' and 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.'

It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.