Arjun Kapoor Quotes

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

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

Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

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.

Audiences are an unknown mystery to me, so I can't really predict anything. For me, the best audience is myself, my crew, and the actors.

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.

I just want to do films which I enjoy doing and the audience will too like it watching.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.