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You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.