74 Quotes by Vetrimaaran

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

I do films for the common man and identify myself one among them.

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.

For me, every film is a learning process. After each, I take time to unlearn.

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him that I didn't speak the language. He got angry and said, 'How could you not speak in Hindi? Hindi is our mother tongue.' I told him that it wasn't my mother tongue. He got furious, and made me wait for over 45 minutes.

The first 40-50 pages of 'Veekai' is what made it film-friendly. I realised the subject would be relevant even after 50 years.

We should protest to ban NEET altogether.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.