Vikram Bhatt Quotes

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

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

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.