Asked Quote by Denis Villeneuve

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I always wanted to direct a film.

— Poonam Dhillon

I did 'My Name Is Khan' and 'My Friend Pinto,' and I wasn't happy with where they were trying to slot me. So I…

— Arjun Mathur

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to…

— Godfrey Reggio

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

— Deepti Naval

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

— Cary Fukunaga

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told…

— Stellan Skarsgard

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.

— Lara Dutta

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

— Guillermo del Toro

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and…

— Ted Demme