Quotes About Film

Promotions create awareness, but if there is no merit to the film, what will promotions do anyway?

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

Sometimes, more money is spent on promotion of a film than the making of it. I don't understand that logic. The movie should run on its merit.

I think film promotion has become really important in today's time. PM Narendra Modi also felt the need to do campaigning. If he doesn't do that, then nobody will give vote to him.

I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

It would be prudish to say, 'I don't want to be a prop in a film,' because there are certain films I've loved doing, as I have looked very glamorous in them.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

There used to be no bound scripts and the dialogues were given to us on the day of the shoot. There were no proper makeup rooms.

I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

'Jia Aur Jia' is like my first proper fun, masti Bollywood film. I have a full-on dance number.

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.