Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.

I like it when things come to me; I choose a movie if I know I need to be a part of it.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.

Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented