Quotes About Film

Not many people know that I turned down my husband's first directorial, the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anupallavi,' something he still hasn't forgiven me for.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

I think it would be fun to play a young Ozzy Osbourne in a movie about the formation of Black Sabbath.

Theatre is an actor's medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

There is a successful formula for every actor. At the same time, I also know that a film will not be successful if you satisfy only the fans of a particular actor.

I've watched 'Senna' - a documentary film about a Formula One driver - three or four times now. I'm not a massive Formula One fan but I watch it and think 'God, what a waste.'

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.

I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

Fortunately or unfortunately, 'Baahubali' has become a benchmark for all historical-costume dramas.

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience.

I would want a sequel to 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.' But more than me, it's the audience who are looking forward to the same.

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

Megan Fox is so funny.

I fractured my hand while shooting for 'Bullet Raja,' while we were shooting in Nashik.

Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.

My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.