A biography for Ram Gopal Varmahasn’t been written yet.
“I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.”
“The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that - that is how they measure success. I don't do it like that.”
“I make movies on the subjects that excite me.”
“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.”
“A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.”
“When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!”
“I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.”
“I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.”
“I like to see women getting drenched in the rain. So to that extent, I like 'Barsaat.'”
“'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.”
“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?”
“My greatest dream is to make a film on 'The Fountainhead,' which I have been restraining from doing because it is so much in the mind, and I am yet to be able to decode that.”
“It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.”
“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.”
“With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.”
“I don't think I take risks. People think I do, but I don't. In fact, I think conventional-formula filmmakers take more risks than me.”
“To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.”
“I don't think I have the patience required to undertake projects as huge as 'Baahubali.' You need to spend a lot of time and years to make something empowering like that.”
“Films are all I know. I wouldn't know what to do with a day off.”
“Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.”