Quotes About Film

What's exciting is that after all these years, I have made my Bollywood debut. And the reach of the Hindi film industry is huge.

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

After acting in several Hindi films, I have decided to be a producer.

I don't know what draws me to my films. In hindsight, my choices turn out OK.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

'Rudhramadevi' is a film which falls into a very new genre. It is a historic and biographic genre movie. It should be called a bio epic. I am curious to see how the audiences accept the film.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

'Singham' was one-and-a-half stars all over, and it was one of the biggest hits of my career. It gave me so much respect. People think if it's not critically acclaimed, you won't get respect. But that's not true. Even if you get one star, your film will do well if the audience wants to see it.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

I watch films and TV almost like as a hobby - not even as a hobby: it's bordering on careerist. It would be easier to tell you what I'm not into than what I am.

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.