Quotes from Suhasini Maniratnam

Technology has definitely changed a lot, and it has made the medium of cinema very accessible for aspirants.

The business of looking good is very difficult. This has often made me consider retirement from films.

We women want to take the easy way out. I appreciate men because they take risks.

My love is music... I do not give too much importance to love and romance.

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

I stay in Chennai but my heart is beating for Kannada films.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

I don't get bored of life. I always find things that excite me.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

When I am at home, I am there and when I'm shooting or doing any other thing, I concentrate on that.

I have a long time association with Prince jewellery and the only piece of jewellery I wore for my wedding was designed by them.

The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be seeing much change in the way women are portrayed in cinema.

My parents and their well-being comes before my work.

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

Most people don't even know that I have another side to me. They only know me as an actor. But I keep doing different kinds of things.

College education teaches you humility.

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

The more women grow economically, there will be more allegations against them. If they don't grow, if they are quiet, nobody is going to find fault with them.

If you are making a film for the first time, you have all the problems and fears. Yet, you have the freedom that you will never get in life.

The Indian film industry has a condescending attitude towards its fans without actually intending to. They want to explain everything, leaving very little to the filmgoers' imagination.