Quotes About Film

It's great to imagine and visualise while reading a novel. It doesn't always work for a film. 'Pavithra' had a good script executed badly.

Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.

The good part about 'Aashiqui 2' is even before the shooting of film begins, it has garnered lot of attention. If it has a good story and music, it will do well.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

If a star film does not have a good story, it will not run. This will make stars choose good scripts consciously.

A good film is always a good film and a good story is always a good story.

Why should I do a movie for dance? I can always do it on stage, and I'm doing it. However, if such a film with a good story comes my way, then I might probably do it.

The Malayali audience, which appreciates a good story or experiment, is our strength. They don't ask who is the star of a new film, they ask who is the director and writer.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'

With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

I want to do good work in cinemas and on OTT.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart.

I loved Jennifer Lawrence's performance in 'Winter's Bone.'

If you look at any film fest, the setting gives it colour. Be it Goa, Cannes or even Berlin in the winter, the setting makes these festivals special and gives it a definition.

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film.

We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!