Top 45 Ram Gopal Varma Quotes

When I have a new idea, I’m charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don’t have the patience to wait for stars.

The thing about audiences is that we can’t generalise them. It’s very unfair.

You are likely to make more mistakes with a light-hearted film than a serious one.

I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.

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.

The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect.

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.

Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.

Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.

If ‘Bhoot’ was called ‘Man Ke Rishte,’ no one would be interested. The title is a very essential part of a film. It subconsciously prepares the audience as to what they can expect.

When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.

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

‘The Godfather’ has been a film which has influenced me a lot.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.

I don’t want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.

I don’t think cinema is big or small. It’s just good or bad.

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

‘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 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.

Films are all I know. I wouldn’t know what to do with a day off.

I always had a fair share of hits and flops.

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

Films like ‘Satya,’ ‘Company’ needed a pan-Indian audience. The affinity for Hindi film and subjects was there.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

I never think of a film after I finish it.

I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them.

In the business of entertainment, either I am able to create an effect that impresses people or not.

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 have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor’s medium.

Many people don’t understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong – but you don’t realise it till the film is made.

I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?

I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my cell phone, and I suddenly saw a message that Sridevi is no more… I thought that either it’s a nightmare or a hoax, and I went back to sleep.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

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

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

It is none of anyone’s business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I’ll have my favourite moments from it.

A film sells feelings.

I don’t believe in gratitude.