Quotes About Film

I've always liked dark, creepy movies, but for some reason, I started on the film scene with romantic comedies.

I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.

It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

This is an old film from donkeys' years ago, but the first film I ever... the first time I ever cried watching a movie was when I was watching 'The Champ.'

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

If I have to get a film by impressing someone, the audience can see everything. They will criticise me if I can't act, no matter how many films I get.

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money or any of that other stuff, it never leads anywhere good.

To me, success means either the audience have to like your movie or the critics have to.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

Maybe one day I could make a film which works at the box-office and the critics also like it.

'Dus' was different from 'Tum Bin,' and 'Ra.One' from 'Dus,' but the difference didn't pop out as much as 'Mulk.' That was because it was an issue-based film and crossed the line as being a serious, hard-hitting movie.

Our actors are crossing borders and now so are our stories. And that is what I saw in 'Bachaana.' The film is light and easy.

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

My first-ever celebrity crush was Val Kilmer from 'Top Secret!' Not his biggest film, but I remember loving him in that movie.