I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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 read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.
We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.
The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.
I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.
Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.
Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.
It takes two years to make a good film.
I was fascinated by my parents as I would visit them on the sets. Since we were a nuclear family I always accompanied my parents to their shoots and I liked the atmosphere there.
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.
That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.
I want to concentrate on movies. Bollywood is my priority, but that doesn't mean I will stop working on series. I want to do both.
Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.
