Quotes About Film

Blackkklansmen' is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present.

To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.

Directing seems like a logical progression for me, although I would never put myself in a film of mine. How can you? Putting on make-up while you're trying to concentrate on setting up the next shot? No, no.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

'Alemaari' is an experimental cinema of sorts. If audiences don't understand it, the film will fall flat.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

I would love to do a Bollywood flick.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

The first martial arts movie I ever watched was this old Chinese film called 'Five Deadly Venoms.' I was seven years old. My dad and I were sitting in front of the TV on the floor in our living room.

I'd rather give one hit song than a flop film.

People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

Unfortunately in Bollywood, if your film is a flop, your acting is considered flop too.

This is a very competitive industry and everyone is scared that their career might finish if they deliver a flop film.

Cinema is my life and I can never make a flop.

There is always a hit and a flop, it's part of working in the film industry.

In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film.

I go with the flow of the film. I feel if it's the demand of the script, then you should do it.

Harmesh Malhotra's 'Nigahen' is said to be a sequel to his 'Nagina.' But in reality, the characters in the second film did not flow out of the first.

I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.