Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

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

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

The best films come about through experimentation.

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I think films are bigger than structure.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

I have the soul of a director.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

No director can ever deliver what's on his or her mind totally, but 'Baahubali-2' is the closest I can get in executing what I had envisaged onto the celluloid.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

It is difficult, but I definitely do want to make a film in Malayalam at some point of my life.

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

Whenever I'm making a film, it has to be timeless.

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.