Quotes About Film

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

I think any director is intimidating.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.

My introduction into the film industry happened with 'Masaan,' which was a multi-star cast film. I was just a part of the film.

I was very introverted as a child and as an adult. But something inside told me that I needed to express myself, and it would be on the big screen.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

I think 'Ratcatcher' broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it wasn't going to be a conventional piece of work, but they were still willing to invest in it. With this material you have to be quite courageous.

From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

You go to certain movies where everything will be right and you will be invested in the story, but a movie like 'The Room' affects you instantly, and you are left with asking questions. You're almost like a part of the movie, as its not doing what it's supposed to do, and you become one with the film, and you say what you want.

A lot of money gets invested in making a film.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

I would do more film roles if I am invited.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.