Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at..

Even when you're casting, casting is always one of the weirdest subjective areas. You can get a group of people who would decide and say, "This perso….

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?.

The public be damned..

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does..

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be..

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional..

I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing..

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence….

I've never done a film that I'm proud of..

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films..

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughes….

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems..

I want my films to be seen everywhere..

If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's….

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review..

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself t….

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?.

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' T….