Vijay Krishna Acharya Quotes

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.

I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about filmmaking. He had been deeply affected, even as a child, by great films that stretched his mind and struck into his heart, and he was eager to share them with friends and people who worked with him or with actors who were in his films.

There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

I am a film buff.

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.