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In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

And working on 'Grantchester' is a joy. Ive been in the business for 35 years and Ive never been on a film set that is so joyous and life-affirming.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.'

There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences.

Being a part of a good film is always satisfying and when audiences also accept your effort, it gives you twice the joy.

Releasing a film through DTH is a double-edged sword. The opinion formed following the premiere of a film can mar or enhance its business.

The things are in right direction and I am very much the producer of the film 'Super' that is made in three language.

Director Kabir Khan had read the script of 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' and is responsible for roping in Salman Khan for this film - a movie that will also mark as Salman's debut production.

Success of a film released through DTH depends on word-of-mouth publicity.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.