Cinematic Preferences Quotes

I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

It was coincidental that 'Housefull 2' and 'Bol Bachchan' came back-to-back. It's not that I have a special affinity for them and so I chose them; they just came my way.

I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

I love submarine movies.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula].

I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

I decided that I have certain taste in cinema and I will take it forward. I know there is an audience for such cinema.