Aparna Sen Quotes

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

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

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Our entire goal is to make something that moves you... if you don't want to call it country, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.