My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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Related I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. W... JACKY IDO As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much a... DIRK BENEDICT What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films. OM PURI I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much impo... AAMIR KHAN I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver... JOHN ABRAHAM I seriously put him in the same league as Alec Guinness or Peter Sellers. If he had gone into film h... BARRY CRYER I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the fil... ALICE ENGLERT When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a ... JAMES FRANCO My film hero is Crazy Harry. He only pops up in about three or four Muppet films but he is brilliant... FREDDIE WINDSOR I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite star... VIJAY SETHUPATHI There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or t... PADDY CONSIDINE Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see... SALMAN KHAN After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct... KIM JEE-WOON As someone who admired the freshness and energy of the earlier films, I was amazed, at the end of 'E... ROGER EBERT All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... TOM STOPPARD I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. TED KOTCHEFF I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My s... ASIF KAPADIA As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my r... MADHUR MITTAL Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to ... DANNY GLOVER As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges. JOE CARNAHAN As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri... LEOS CARAX I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of... GINGER ROGERS I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year. LUC BESSON I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a lon... BRUCE BERESFORD I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... DAVID CRONENBERG I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... BILL PLYMPTON I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz t... RALPH BAKSHI I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a ve... AUDREY HEPBURN As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been ... SATYAJIT RAY I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers,... ALLISON ANDERS My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's... KANGANA RANAUT My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. FREDERICK WISEMAN Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films. RAM CHARAN We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much ... BO DEREK Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvemen... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gon... JENNIFER GARNER I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11. AJAY NAIDU I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to... DAVID JAY I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action... JERRY GOLDSMITH There are no great scripts - just great films. MALCOLM MCDOWELL As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Every... MAHESH BABU My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films alway... JERRY HALL I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little... BAHMAN GHOBADI I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because... BRENDA BLETHYN I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort. RANI MUKERJI I try to keep that game out of my mind as much as possible, but as you can imagine, it's a big part ... GREGG WILLIAMS I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label an... DAVID KNOPFLER I wasn't in any position. My goodness, they had all the right in the world to judge me -- they had n... MICHELLE MONAGHAN My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my... KARAN JOHAR Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give mysel... TAYLOR LAUTNER I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... DAVID CRONENBERG I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to tur... PARK CHAN-WOOK I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly t... STEPHEN HAWKING I'm not snobby about my movies; I just love all films. RILEY KEOUGH You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to hav... ANN PATCHETT I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films h... JENNIFER CONNELLY You have to be the actors' dialogue, whereas in sound films, you're writing to stay out of the way o... MARCUS SJOWALL My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of th... DHANUSH Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore c... IRRFAN KHAN When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around... STEVEN SPIELBERG There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her tw... BERNARD HILL After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' peop... MADHUR BHANDARKAR My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had ... TREY ANASTASIO The whole time my mindset was always to try and get better in spite of what was going on, and in spi... WILLIAM GREEN I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festiva... TAKESHI KITANO The fact that I have done films down South didn't boost or hamper my chances here. In fact, I wa... POOJA HEGDE I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like... DAN SAVAGE I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films... EVAN GLODELL I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. ... PRIYANKA CHOPRA But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in... MANDY MOORE If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked... ANGELINA JOLIE I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so h... KIM WILDE I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad ch... EMILIA FOX I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on ... BILL FORSYTH I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me I had a chameleon soul No moral compass po... LANA DEL REY I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she... PRABAL GURUNG I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I wa... DAVID NEWMAN Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are ... LINA WERTMULLER My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... CHRIS CRUTCHER If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrat... DOMINIC MONAGHAN Six months ago, I was just a writer for Esquire, typing up in my little garret on the far north side... TED ALLEN I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n... STEPHANIE SIGMAN Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th... JASON REITMAN Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done i... BRUCE BERESFORD I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterwa... SEAN COLLINS I thought it was a reflection, not a whole reflection, because films never are. You know workers had... DESMOND MORTON I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're... MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and t... MARC ALMOND
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