Pooja Bhatt Quotes

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

Every director is so different from every other one.

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

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

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

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.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

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

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.