Vikramaditya Motwane

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I like the films that gain awareness at the end - a sort of breakout moment.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

My defining moment was when I finally went to Cannes and saw my name along with international filmmakers.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The more shows that there are, the better it is for the industry. The writers are busy, if the writers are busy,…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You want your film to be seen by the largest audience and stars help in facilitating that. Star-power does work.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

If we go back to the birth of 'Superman' and 'Batman' in America in the '30s, they were created because of events…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I was born in Mumbai and brought up between Mumbai and Nashik.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I like to have the actors do their thing. And then brief them what to do differently in take two.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I have not understood till date why we censor adult films. If someone over 18 can get married, produce children and drive…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Trapped' is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It's like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I generally respond to any story very organically.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Hard-hitting films are remembered for a long time.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

'Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Give me a story which I connect with and then I am going to do it.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I think because of social media and YouTube things are changing. Today people have a judgement about films.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is…

— Vikramaditya Motwane