Ayushmann Khurrana Quotes

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

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.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

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.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really good cinema, driven by good stories. But then, I decided to explore everything possible.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

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

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

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've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.