I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit...

'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.

I don't consciously aim at shooting movies in different locations but if my films feature never-seen-before locations, then why not.

'Junglee' was a magical journey. When you see the visuals of the film or the song 'Fakeera,' it reminds you of Dehradun.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by...

My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

Doing a film about my first passion Cricket. It is a very emotional feeling for me. I’ll be playing Madan Lal Sir, who at the time when I played U-17 India, was also the bowling coach at the...

For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning,...

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that...

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

Don't judge a book by its movie.