Chunky Pandey Quotes

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I want to make timeless movies.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

A good film is a good film.

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are gone. 'Trainspotting' did not, and especially with journalists. So whenever I launched a new film, I'd end up talking about 'Trainspotting.'

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

The impact that you can leave on the other person through your films holds way more weight than just being seen at a party or any other appearance, or being seen at a freaking airport.

There is no way one can remake 'Mughal-e-Azam.' What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.

Some films survive long in theatres, and some stay longer in people's minds.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.