Quotes About Film

Dolly Ki Doli' excited me because it has unique characters. Though it is a smaller film and without a big star, it is still a mainstream film.

In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.

I'm quite loud. When I was in film and TV, people were always saying, 'Oh Kelly, make it smaller, make it smaller.'

After a while, Godard was going to do 'A Woman is a Woman' with Sami Frey and another actress in the leading lady part but they couldn't do it and so he had to find somebody else. I was not supposed to play the lead in it in the beginning - I originally had one of the smaller parts.

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.

We need women behind the camera like we do in front of the camera. That's when we will have stronger, smarter, better roles for us.

I planned for my first film 'Crook' - that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, 'Oh my God, everything's going to be so good and perfect.'

Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.

The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!

Usually, on sets, they'll have multiples of the same outfit, in case it gets damaged or in case it gets dirty and starts to smell weird.

Tumhari Sulu' will bring a smile on your face.

I make films for people to smile, laugh, and have fun.

I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

There is less plastic in Tupperware factory than our film industry. People with plastic smile and plastic heart.

As for me, it is interesting to play a role that is not human; it is nice to be all powerful without fancy action scenes. But, it is not funny to play God, even on film. You don't speak much and just smile beatifically.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.