I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things...
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their f...
You don't have to do offbeat films to prove that you can act. I have done it but only to prove myself that I can fit convincingly into every kind of films. I want to do the 100 crore film where the hero does all the work, and I get to relax.
When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be b...
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of...
I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.
I watch mostly independent films.
'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
I've never really liked horror films.
Short films don't go too far.
I've always loved animation and animated films.
On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
I love film, and I love seeing movies on film.
