Quotes About Film

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

I did theatre when it was not considered prudent for film actors to be seen on stage.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological impact that anybody's willing to talk about.

I feel music-making is more like a psychological game; each film has its own colour that needs to be identified and addressed.

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that. Else, we'll have short lived chart toppers which dim on public memory that moment the film if off screens.

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

Rumours of link-ups with co-stars have become an easy publicity exercise for production houses. It takes the focus away from the film.

Even though you might believe you have the best product on the market or the best film in a really long time, not everyone will agree. The film may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you have to have great publicity to back it up.

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.

'Drive' is definitely an inspiration because it was a film that was able to use what would normally be considered cheesy, kind of bold, electronic music choice and pull it off in a mainstream way.