Vikram Bhatt Quotes

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

Although we're all in this to make a living, why not make something to make an impact? One day, I'll make a horror film. I think I know what the audience wants.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.