Sriram Raghavan Quotes

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.

I like thrillers. That's a genre that I'm really taken with. I love Hitchcock, that thriller style. I'm a student of it.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.

I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.