Film Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

I love being on a movie set.

— Zal Batmanglij

I want to make the iPhone of movies.

— Zal Batmanglij

That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

— Zal Batmanglij

It's so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn't show up on film.

— Zal Batmanglij

I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.

— Zal Batmanglij

I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.

— Zal Batmanglij

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.

— Zal Batmanglij

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

— Zal Batmanglij

I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera.

— Zal Batmanglij

'Terminator' is one of my favorite films, and so is 'Terminator 2.'

— Zal Batmanglij

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What…

— Zal Batmanglij

I think that the campaign that Fox Searchlight has thrown for 'Sound of My Voice' honors the film's roots and the film's…

— Zal Batmanglij

In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its…

— Zal Batmanglij

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does.…

— Zal Batmanglij

Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell,' James Ponsoldt's 'The Spectacular Now,' Destin Daniel Cretton's 'Short Term 12' - these are really important movies.

— Zal Batmanglij

Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and…

— Zal Batmanglij

'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture'…

— Zal Batmanglij

It doesn't really matter what someone's hair looks like or if the sound is perfect. Every director who's made a couple of…

— Zal Batmanglij

A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there's this real…

— Zal Batmanglij

At AFI, you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year, and I…

— Zal Batmanglij

I don't think we set out to make 'The East' in order to necessarily change people's hearts; I don't know how much…

— Zal Batmanglij

I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.

— Zal Batmanglij

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

— Zal Batmanglij