Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

I have realised that it has become essential to promote your film. God forbid, if a film doesn't run, I shouldn't be blamed for that.

If I am not able to go to theaters confidently and watch a film then I don't expect people to watch my film also.

I make music for people to hear it, so get it however you want!

I like to write film music that stands on its own.

But you just don't know where any film is going to go, or how it's going to end up. Films so often don't get the love and attention needed to get to the right festival, or find the right distributor, or get seen by the world.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.