Quotes About Film

Nobody has tried anything like this in Telugu cinema. 'Eega' is a landmark film.

I am open to do a Telugu, Tamil or Malayali movie. If I get a good script and good character, I will surely do it.

I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film; it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny.

The consolidated appreciation that 'Eega' is the pride of the Telugu film industry is the biggest award I can get.

'Naa Ishtam' is my first commercial Telugu film. That was exciting.

I really want to do a Telugu movie.

I couldn't be happier starting 2019 with this film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' It's the first time that I am doing a trilingual film which I'm excited about. It will be my Tamil and Telugu debut.

Once there was this Telugu film about a ghost. It sounded too hackneyed. 'Probably it will turn out fine,' I told myself and went ahead and... it was a disaster.

I am delighted to have won a place in both Tamil and Telugu film industry.

I got a sneak peek into the functioning of the film industries of the south through Telugu cinema. This industry has helped me understand how to adapt to various styles of filmmaking. It's been liberating.

In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.

In Tamil and Telugu films, I am not called for stylish roles and often play rustic or unglamorous roles in them.

As an actor, I will work - whether it is in a Malayalam, Telugu or any film.

Even my first film Poda Podi' was supposed to be remade in Telugu. That was an experimental film.

'Bad Girl,' the Mollywood flick to be helmed by filmmaker Shajiyem wherein I essay the role of a super model, will be released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing 'Arjun Reddy' has made me more impatient.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

This industry is in a hurry to gain solid results. They expect a hero or a heroine to get intimate on the first day of meeting for the good of the film, which is against my temperament. I draw a line, which the industry doesn't like.

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx Brothers, think again. The biggest star - No. 1 in the 1936, '37 and '38 exhibitor polls - was a three-time box-office champ before she was 10. Shirley Temple, singer, dancer, and prime exemplar of Movie Cute, owned the '30s.

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting memories of that stay, I still remember that I had gone to Kashi Vishwanath temple and shopped for some Banarasi saris.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.