Cinematic Form Quotes

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.

Short films don't go too far.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

Bengali movies are a great form of cinema too. Interestingly, they work with lower budgets.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.