Quotes About Film

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.

I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

When I choose a script, I ensure that I get to contribute to the film in some way and, in turn, grow as an actor in the process.

'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.

I don't need to do a film unless I'm convinced it's worth my while.

Amitabh Bachchan was the coolest character in every movie.

I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.