Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.
With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.
It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.
I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.
Everybody tells me to only do action films, but I would love to do horror, too.
I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.
Noir was a brainchild of the United States. And most of the creators of classic noir - novelists and screenwriters, directors and cameramen - were men. Women were their mysterious, sometimes villainous, always seductive objects of desire.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.
It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.
Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.
The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.
'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.
Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.
I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.
People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.
I get bored watching action movies.
