Rana Daggubati Quotes

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.

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

There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

I love all kinds of stories and movies, and I did work hard to get through to the creative community and studio executives that I could work in a number of different genres and tones.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my stories from outside this country, then that's an added bonus.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

As a moviemaker, I'm able to have a little impact on the socio-political landscape and to reach a large audience around the world. That inspires me. That is something I'm inspired by and it's what I inspire to.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.