100 Quotes by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

My art completes my life.

Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay.

I just wish one of the big American studios had bought 'Devdas.' They would have pitched the film for the Oscars in a big way, like Miramax did with the Chinese film 'Hero.'

There was no fear of failure when I made 'Bajirao Mastani.'

The multiplexes audience has one way of thinking. When they are all sitting together temperamentally, there is room for a filmmaker to reach out to a far larger audience in a comfortable way.

I am a fearless filmmaker.

I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in 'Chaplin?' Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in 'Heartburn?'