Quotes About Film

There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

I'll watch anything as long as it's good. I can't choose just one movie that I love.

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

Audience will get bored if just one kind of films will continue to get made.

It's just something I've always loved to do: talk basketball. It's easy for me to give my perspective, my analyst approach to it, because even when I played, I would watch film, talk about the game.

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

Even if I were to try to imitate Kurosawa I know that it's absolutely impossible. That era of film was just something else, including the actors. Everything about that era was on a completely different level.

'Marmayogi' has a budget of Rs 110 crore, and I think only a gifted person like Kamal Haasan can do justice to such a film.

There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

I think it's really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn't shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don't.

So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they're male? They're probably going to recognize me from 'The Karate Kid Part II.'

I have this special connect with Tollywood, some kind of a Karmic connection.

It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the state.

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

Buster Keaton is my hero.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

I was a big fan of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

I think that the Punjabi film industry is growing and is keen to experiment with different genres.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.