I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.
I yearn to make a really good, intelligent movie before I die: I don't completely rule out the possibility, but in Hollywood, I'm not bankable.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
I love having made a movie.
When you do a Tom Cruise movie, you don't do a Tom Cruise movie and ask a lot of questions.
Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.
I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.
I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.
I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.
F. Gary Gray, I think, is one of the best directors I've ever worked with in my life, and I'd love to work with him again.
It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
Mostly, in The Great Waldo Pepper I remember the lovely Ed Herrmann befriending me and taking care of me. I was crying a lot. I was a real mess when we made that. But this is all such ancient history, Jesus Lord. Was this before or after The Sting?
Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.
Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.
My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.
My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then we would discover what we were expected to do on the sets. Those days have changed.
When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
