Anushka Sharma Quotes

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.