George Lucas Quotes

My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

I pushed away a lot of friendships.

No one knows why a film does well or not. The reasons for this are not important. What is important is the intention you start the film with and the final state when the film releases on a Friday - whether people liked it or not.

I think, it's important to understand how to release a film.

I think of 'Beyond The Clouds' very fondly. Yes, it has not been seen by a lot of people in theatres. I had anticipated more people would watch it. But that has to do with something I don't know well: marketing. A lot of people didn't even know that it was a Hindi film.

Awards and nominations really help sell films.

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

Promotion is absolutely essential in the movie business.

I'm personally not a very contact-y person; I just let my phone die and don't turn it on for a couple of days.

In my Bengali films, I am involved with all the promotional activities, release date posters etc.

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.

Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.