Quotes About Film

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

The Salman I know is definitely not impulsive, or he wouldn't have completed any film in the stipulated period of time.

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

In my opinion, boys should not start with films before they are at least 24 years of age, because emoting on screen needs a certain amount of maturity, and a lot rides on an actor's shoulders.

Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene. That scene doesn't always have to be in the beginning of the film. But it can also be at the end, or in the middle, and that can sometimes make the film more effective.

The only challenge I faced in the beginning was that no one believed I could seriously see a film through.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

LGBTQIA inclusion in media, especially TV and film, is not just important, it's essential.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

Even during 'Udta Punjab,' I didn't say much until the film was out. I feel it's incorrect to talk about a film until everything falls into place.

As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that film increases manifold.

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

Cinema is incredibly concise.