Quotes About Film

Once the film is done, then I like to watch myself. I know some actors say that they get very self-conscious watching themselves on screen especially if they have to cry in the scenes, they don't like the way their face contorts, but I have no such issues.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.

While on shoots, if I am not shooting for a scene, I would do any work that I can pick, including taking the clap, cue, basically assisting my directors.

Since 'Main Hoon Na' is a cult film, if I want to make a sequel, the story has to be good!

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

'Company' has become a cult film. When people see me at the airport, and when I travel, they call me 'Companywala.'

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

You know, what is so curious about being a director is that you never get on anybody else's set and see how they do things.

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

Deconstructing your performance is the curse an actor has to live with. That's why I don't watch my films.

'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It was really fun, but for me, I look at it as a training film, and I'm not really proud of my work in it.

I have often played the cute, girl-next-door character, who is in love with the hero.

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

As 'Ready' did 100 crore-plus business, we will continue to dabble in film production in a big way.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn't do well, like 'Byomkesh.'

What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off.

I don't miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it's so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything's as it should be.

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.