Gurinder Chadha Quotes

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.