Anushka Sharma Quotes

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

One of my favorite Tarantino films is 'Jackie Brown,' and 'Jackie Brown' does it so well, where I'm watching the back half of that movie, and I don't know which side Jackie Brown is playing. I think it's really ingenious for Tarantino to keep us in the dark on that.

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good.