Siddharth Shukla Quotes

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Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

I can make any film I want to make.

In this digital world, web shows are a total game changer. Compared to films, they allow you to have far more choices to collaborate with super- talented people, dig deeper into a character, explore fresh creative ideas, with less restrictions.

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don't touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.

Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn't the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

The freedom of poetic license.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.