Naga Chaitanya Quotes

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

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

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.