Quotes from Anupama Chopra

However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.

In Aditya Chopra's old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: "More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I'm sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I'm today. Lots of love and come let's make some more dreams together.

Director Steven Spielberg bought the only remaining Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) for $55,000 at auction at Sotheby's. He called the sled 'a symbolic emblem of quality in the film business'.

I learned everything from Bruce Lee. – Jackie Chan

This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine",

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

Citizen Kane is widely considered the best film ever made.

Citizen Kane still tops most lists as the best film ever made.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature.

Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone 'look like a bulldog', so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist;

Javed Akhtar to remark, "One should never do too much good work in one year.

It's extremely important to know that how you appreciate a movie has everything to do with your life experience at the moment when you see it, how you see it and where you see it.

To see it is to become different." I think so.

The producer of the film Nariman Irani passed away six months before the release and Chandra Barot had no money for the film's promotions.

Eighty per cent of Deewaar was shot at night. Amitabh Bachchan shot for Deewaar at night and during the day for Sholay.

The Godfather is no longer a film, it is a myth.

Zindagi badi honi chaiye, lambi nahin. That's the lesson Anand,

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones was path-breaking in many ways.

I can handle big news and little news. And if there is no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.

Zindagi aur maut uparwale ke haath hai, jahanpanah. Hum sab toh rangmanch ki kathputliyan hain jinki dor uparwale ki ungliyon main bandhi hai. Kab kaun kaise uthega yeh koi nahin bata sakta.

In death, Anand teaches us how to live.

This film is ultimate proof that truth is stranger than fiction.