Chunky Pandey Quotes

I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?

If you have a great story, any film will work.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

I think films are bigger than structure.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer and discussed what as an audience I want to see in the second part of the film. We worked towards that and we hope what we thought connects with the audience.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

The combo of a great story and good director works for me.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

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