Quotes About Film

You know, no one's ever gonna be like, 'We need to do a movie about Howard Hughes. Time to cast Idris Elba!'

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

People have always complained that we have made films ahead of times. 'Hum Dono' is still modern. We had wars then, and we have wars today. We had love and separation then, and we have that today.

Hum Paanch' made Amrish Puri a star and he went on to play Mogambo in my 'Mr. India.'

Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think 'Hum Dono' gave me a great double role - I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the 'haw-haw' type of major.

'Housefull' was a mass entertainer. Kids loved that film and they asked me when I was coming back. I feel I can't tell them that I am coming back as Baba 3G in a sex comedy, 'Kya Super Kool Hai Hum.'

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

I love and respect the Indian film industry specially Salman Khan is such a huge star and so humble.

I am humbled at the fact that I always get great support and reviews from my critics, but it's the film that requires to be good enough for it to work.

It's possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

When you see 'MHN,' you will see that the film is based on relationships which are serious, but there is a sense of humour to it, too.

I would love to see an adaptation of 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.

We had a black bear on the 'Hunger Games' set, and that was a little scary.

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the film.

No consigo recordar ni una sola cosa asombrosa que haya visto en persona que no me recordase de inmediato a una película o a un programa de televisión

I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take on that. Some I thought were valid and some less so, but there was a substantial point that knitted all the films together - a comment on the bombing of the World Trade Center - so there was something to get your teeth into.

All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.