I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.
Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
In film, you can have sad endings.
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.
With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.
I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.
Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal.
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.
The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
The great appeal of film is its relatability.
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
