Madhur Bhandarkar Quotes

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.

I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.