Quotes by Vikramaditya Motwane - Page 2

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.
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Appeals
Niche
Section
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Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.
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Profit
Budget
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Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
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Bombay
Inequality
Microcosm
Next
Poorest
Slums
Whole
Biggest
Ideal
Sense
Skyscrapers
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Trapped' is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his survival based on his primal instincts.
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Electricity
Primal
Survival
Trapped
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I read pretty much every graphic novel I could lay my hands on. Not only 'Batman' or 'Daredevil,' but random ones like 'Black AF' and '100 Bullets.'
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Bullets
Daredevil
Batman
Lay
Random
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I am not afraid of slowing down moments - if you have the right emotion in the right place at the right time, you can have any length of film you want.
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Length
Slowing
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I have not understood till date why we censor adult films. If someone over 18 can get married, produce children and drive cars, why can't they watch a movie?
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Date
Censor
Get Married
Till
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In India, it's tough to shoot a period film outdoors. You cannot find mud roads without wires, signage and billboards with ads of mobile phones even in rural areas.
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Ads
Billboards
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Mud
Phones
Rural Areas
Tough
Area
Period
Outdoors
Roads
Rural
Wires
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You can assist another director and learn the ropes of the craft over the years, but becoming a director is about finding your own voice, so you've got to experiment.
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Your Voice Own
Assist
Craft
Ropes
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Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.
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Happier
Sets
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It doesn't matter how big the film is - if the story is not good, it will not be accepted. Stardom can maybe pull audiences to theatres but beyond that it is all about content.
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Accepted
Stardom
Good Will Matter
Audiences
Content
Beyond
Pull
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There should be a certification process to suggest if a particular film is suitable for 12-year-olds, 15-year-olds or 18-year-olds. The same thing I think applies for the Internet.
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Suggest
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Personally, the films I love include 'Black Friday,' 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai,' 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka,' and 'Zindagi Na Milege Dobara' because they work at the box office and are complete packages.
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Box Office
Friday
Packages
Include
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If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.
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Poke
Genuinely
Statement
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If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.
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Creator
Irresponsible
Parent
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It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.
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Looking Back
Dad Mom Together
Normally
Quicker
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Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It's like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to do things in comic books or films what you can't do in real life.
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Graphic Novels
Batman
Fantasies
Reaction
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I want to direct more often. The job of a producer brings its own benefit as you start to see the simplicity of film making. But yes there is a constant battle between the director and producer in me.
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Battle
Producer
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I've come to a point where I am less nervous when I am supposed to start a film. I am still super nervous on the day but I've lost a lot of my fear about what kind of perception people have about my film.
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Perception
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Showrunning is when you're the constant creative voice in the show. For a year-and-a-half, you are working on the scripts, you're fine-tuning them, you're the final say on the edit, the music and the cast.
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Scripts
Edit
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I knew exactly what I wanted out of my actors - the film stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles - and how each shot should look. A large part of 'Lootera' has been shot under tough conditions.
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Conditions
Film Stars
Exactly What
Large Part
Lead Roles
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But a lot of 'Bhavesh Joshi' comes from the 'angry young man' - the Bachchan films of the '70s or the Sunny Deol films of the '80s, where there is someone who has been wronged and wants to do the right thing.
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Right Thing
Sunny
Wronged
Do The Right Thing
The Right Thing
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When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.
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Repeat
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I love the new Marvel films, but I am not crazy about them. It is no longer a sub-genre or a fanboy genre. It has become so mainstream. You cannot say, 'I love superhero movies.' Everyone loves superhero movies now.
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Superhero
Love Movies I Am
Marvel
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Phantom Films is an established production house and it will help to spread awareness about the documentary film 'Katiyabaaz' among the audience. I saw this film and I loved it. Then we decided to support this film.
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Spread
Established
Documentary
Documentary Film
Phantom
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You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
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Music
Add
Casting
Cinematography
Elements
Filmmaking
Focus
Strong
Like
Really
Just
Music End Of The Day Day
End
Day
How
Efforts
End Of The Day
Technically
Well
Sets
Story
Tell
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In a certain way, I believe 'Trapped' is far more accessible than 'Lootera.' What makes it accessible is that it can happen to anyone. We all have a fear of getting trapped in a certain place or being locked out of our houses.
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Locked
Trapped
Fear Believe I Believe
Certain Way
Houses
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I am drawn towards the sort of characters who are in situations where they don't want to be in. But that's a staple in pretty much in any hero's journey because if you have non-reluctant protagonist then how is there any conflict?
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Conflict
Protagonist
Staple
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I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.
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Bombay
Love Hate
Love Hate Relationship
Massive
Suburbs
Western
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
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What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is placed, the way characters move, the way you dressed the sets, the respect for craft and actors, I do miss that in today's films.
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Aesthetic
Craft
Dressed
Placed
Sets
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Censorship is a stupid thing. There should be certification, and not censorship. People are smart enough to understand that if a film is meant for kids, then kids will watch it and if a film is meant for adults, only adults will watch it.
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Censorship
Stupid Smart People
Stupid Thing
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I try not to read all reviews, but its just that after a point there is nothing much that you can do about it. You can learn and take forward things and use it in your next film. As long as reviews translate into bums on the seat, I think there isn't much I can do.
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Reviews
Translate
Bums
Seat
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Post my parents' divorce, when I was 10, my mother, Deepa Motwane, took up a job as a line producer with documentary filmmaker Shukla Das, who was a cousin of hers. When I was 17, she did a TV talk show and I helped her with research and assisted her as she was also producing that show.
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Cousin
Divorce
Filmmaker
Assisted
Documentary
Hers
Producer
Post
Talk Show
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If we go back to the birth of 'Superman' and 'Batman' in America in the '30s, they were created because of events like the Great Depression, crime and Al Capone, among others. Everybody was corrupt back then, and if you can't have a hero in real life, it helps to have one in your fantasies.
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Capone
Great Depression
Al
Batman
Corrupt
Fantasies
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While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire 'Batman' series, Frank Miller's 'Batman,' Ed Brubaker's 'Batman,' Scott Snyder's 'Batman,' all the way through 'Daredevil' to '100 Bullets,' through so many other graphic novels.
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Bullets
Daredevil
Frank
Graphic Novels
Batman
Chewed
Miller
Scott
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I think vigilantism is a pipe dream, because the larger need is for a justice system that works. Now, Batman cannot be Batman without police commissioner Jim Gordon, because every time he catches a villain, he tries to send them to Gordon. So, the idea is to help the justice system to work. I don't think it can work in real life, though.
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Pipe
Villain
Life Time Work
Batman
Commissioner
Life Work Time
Gordon
Jim
Tries
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