Dia Mirza Quotes

A film sells feelings.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each of them. Like that, every film is an experience that entertains you. Some films will touch your heart. Some will touch you emotionally. There is nothing more than that.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.