Quotes About Film

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

Music will always be the heart and soul of a film, whether the film is star-driven or content-driven.

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

Chhichhore' is really close to all of our hearts. We had a great time while making the film.

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was a film called 'Oonch Neech Beech' and in one shot, Shashi Kapoor goes out for a jog and when he reaches, he is 40 kilos heavier!

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

Climax shoot for 'Dabangg3' has been very hectic yet a great experience.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.