Abhishek Bachchan Quotes

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

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 look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.