Filmmaker's Intent Quotes

I want my films to do the talking. I feel if people have to understand me better, I should do more good films. I just want them to know me through my films.

Content films necessary don't go by the content, they go by the emotions. Content films are about content whether you want to portray the content or sell it through humour, through seriousness, is a choice of the filmmaker.

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

I think the fact that Rajamouli sir wrote the character of 'Baahubali' for me has been the biggest compliment in itself.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.

One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.