Ram Gopal Varma

Director

99 Quotes

To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that - that is how they measure success. I don't do it like that.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

I think a lot before tweeting. I show it like I don't, but I do. Sometimes I don't mean it, sometimes I mean it, and sometimes I like to provoke a reaction from people. I enjoy reactions from them.

My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film 'Shiva.' I used to walk from Nagarjuna's office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live, and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi's house from outside her gate.

'D' is about a guy who starts off somewhere, and he's a very thinking kind of a guy. He's not an emotional person; he doesn't react to situations. Instead, he's virtually choreographing the situations. So it's a development of a character.

My favourite virtue is not having any.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

I never think of a film after I finish it.

Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.

I like to see women getting drenched in the rain. So to that extent, I like 'Barsaat.'

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

I think every star was a new actor at one point of time.

I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.

'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.

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