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I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

The lack of 'quality' films in Pakistan was one of the reasons why I stayed away.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.