Quotes About Film

There's nothing experimental about 'Kaashmora,' as it's a blend of fantasy and entertainment. The only experiment we did was with my makeover in the film.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.

I always loved experimenting in film.

I consider all my films experiments.

Thanks to multiplexes there are lots of experiments going on and we have some great directors like Sujoy, Shoojit, Dibakar.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.

Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.

I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

I love romance films, especially between people of color, because we don't really explore that enough. I would love to do that.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

I would rather explore the medium of films than television.

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.

Happiness comes from different things. The kind of exposure and reach you get from a film, it makes you happy. Any film that you do has a lot of reach.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.